The surname records
Only surnames with enough sourced evidence get a page: at least two sourced claims and a sourced link to a clan or tartan. A name missing here is not unconnected to a clan; it means the records do not yet support a page. To look up any name, use the tartan finder.
Mac, Mc and M' are read as the same prefix, and spacing is ignored.
Buchanan is a territorial surname, taken from the lands and parish of Buchanan in Stirlingshire on the east shore of Loch Lomond.
28 evidence claims · 25 sources
Also spelled Cambel, Cambell, Caimbeul
Campbell is the English spelling of the Gaelic Caimbeul.
23 evidence claims · 24 sources
Also spelled Douglass
Douglas is a place name before it is a family name.
28 evidence claims · 20 sources
Also spelled Frazer, Fraiser, Frasier, Frashier, Frazier, Fresel, Friseal
Nobody has established what Fraser means, and the sources read for this page disagree.
36 evidence claims · 30 sources
Also spelled Gordin, Gordone, Gordun, Gordune, Gordyn, Gourdon
Gordon is a place-name surname.
29 evidence claims · 18 sources
Also spelled MacDonald, McDonald, MacDonnell, McDonnell, Mac Dhòmhnaill
Macdonald is the anglicised form of the Gaelic Mac Dhòmhnaill, "son of Dòmhnall".
29 evidence claims · 27 sources
Also spelled MacKenzie, McKenzie, Macenzie, Kenzie, MacKinzie
Mackenzie is the anglicised form of the Gaelic Mac Coinnich, "son of Coinneach".
31 evidence claims · 29 sources
Also spelled Stuart, Steuart, Steward
Stewart is an occupational name.
21 evidence claims · 22 sources
Also spelled Wallis, Vallance, Waleis
Wallace is a name for a kind of person, not a place.
31 evidence claims · 24 sources
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A name missing here is not unconnected to a clan; the records do not yet support a page for it. The tartan finder searches every record on the site, including names without a page.
The swatches are register images of the tartans each record links to the name. A link is a sourced claim about the name's history and carries its own confidence label on the surname page.
How to read these pages
A surname page records where sources say the name comes from, how it was spelled and where it is found. It describes the name, never one person who bears it.
A surname and a clan can share a name without every bearer of the name belonging to the clan. The link is a sourced claim, and it carries a confidence label.
A tartan is linked to a name by a sourced claim about the name's history, not about any individual's family. A shared surname is not proof of a right to wear a tartan.
Sharing a surname with a clan does not show descent from it or membership of it. Each link on these pages is its own claim, with its sources and a confidence label, and none of them traces anyone's ancestry.