The Clans and Kindreds with Histories in the Encyclopedia

Can't find your Scottish name in the below list of 346 names? This maybe because your surname was historically a satellite family, in modern terms called a ‘sept’ of a larger kindred. You can use our Clan Finder database at clancentral.co.uk to find which wider clan your name was part of. Over time we will aim to have small histories on all of the major Septs and smaller Scottish clans. 

Abercromby
Abernethy
Adair
Adam
Agnew
Aikenhead
Ainslie
Aiton
Allardice
Anderson
Anstruther
Arbuthnott
Armstrong
Arnott
Auchinleck
Baillie
Baird
Balfour
Bannatyne
Bannerman
Barclay
Baxter
Bell
Belshes
Bethune
Beveridge
Binning
Bisset
Blackadder
Blackstock
Blair
Blane
Blyth
Borthwick
Boswell
Boyd
Boyle
Brisbane
Brodie
Broun
Bruce
Buchan
Buchanan
Burnett
Butter
Byres
Cairns
Calder
Caldwell
Callender
Cameron
Campbell
Carmichael
Carnegie
Carruthers
Cathcart
Chalmers
Charteris
Chattan
Cheyne
Chisholm
Clelland
Clephane
Cochrane
Cockburn
Colquhoun
Colville
Congilton
Craig
Cranstoun
Crawford
Crichton
Crosbie
Cumming
Cunningham
Dalmahoy
Dalrymple
Dalziel
Darroch
Davidson
Dennistoun
Dewar
Don
Douglas
Drummond
Dunbar
Duncan
Dundas
Dunlop
Durie
Edmonstone
Eliott
Elphinstone
Erskine
Ewing
Fairlie
Falconer
Farquharson
Fenton
Fergusson
Fleming
Fletcher
Forbes
Forrester
Forsyth
Fotheringham
Fraser
Fraser of L
Fullarton
Galbraith
Galloway
Garden
Gartshore
Gayre
Ged
Gibsone
Gladstains
Glas
Glen
Glendinning
Gordon
Graham
Grant
Gray
Grierson
Gunn
Guthrie
Haig
Haldane
Haliburton
Halkerston
Halket
Hamilton
Hannay
Hay
Henderson
Hepburn
Heron
Herries
Hog
Home
Hope
Hopkirk
Horsburgh
Houston
Hunter
Hutton
Inglis
Innes
Irvine
Irving of Bonshaw
Jardine
Johnstone
Keith
Kelly
Kennedy
Kerr
Kincaid
Kinloch
Kinnaird
Kinnear
Kinninmont
Kirkcaldy
Kirkpatrick
Laing
Lammie
Lamont
Langlands
Learmonth
Leask
Lennox
Leslie
Lindsay
Little
Livingstone
Lockhart
Logan
Logie
Lumsden
Lundin
Lyle
Lyon
Macalister
Macarthur
Macaulay
Macbain
Macbrayne
Macdonald
Macdonald CR.
Macdonald Kep
Macdonald SL.
Macdonnell of Glen
Macdougall
Macdowall
Macduff
Macewen
Macfarlane
Macfie
Macgillivray
Macgregor
Macinnes
Macintyre
Mackay
Mackenzie
Mackie
Mackinnon
Mackintosh
Maclachlan
Maclaine of L
Maclaren
Maclea
Maclean
Maclellan
Maclennan
Macleod
Macmillan
Macnab
Macnaghten
Macneacail
Macneil
Macpherson
Macquarrie
Macqueen
Macrae
Mactavish
Macthomas
Maitland
Makgill
Malcolm
Mar
Marjoribanks
Masterton
Matheson
Maule
Maxton
Maxwell
Mccorquodale
Mcculloch
Mciver
Mckerrell
Meldrum
Melville
Menzies
Mercer
Middleton
Moffat
Moncreiffe
Moncur
Monteith
Montgomery
Monypenny
Morrison
Mouat
Moubray
Mow
Muir
Munro
Murray
Nairn
Napier
Nesbitt
Nevoy
Newlands
Newton
Nicolson
Norvel
Ochterlony
Ogilvy
Oliphant
Orrock
Paisley
Patterson
Pennycook
Pentland
Pitblado
Pitcairn
Pollock
Polwarth
Porterfield
Preston
Primrose
Pringle
Purves
Rait
Ralston
Ramsay
Rattray
Renton
Riddell
Roberton
Robertson
Rollo
Rose
Ross
Rossie
Russel
Rutherford
Ruthven
Sandilands
Schaw
Scott
Scrymgeour
Sempill
Seton
Shaw
Sinclair
Skene
Skirving
Somerville
Spalding
Spens
Spottiswood
Stewart
Stirling
Strachan
Straiton
Strange
Stuart of Bute
Sutherland
Swinton
Sydserf
Symington
Symmers
Tailyour
Tait
Tennant
Trotter
Troup
Turnbull
Tweedie
Udny
Urquhart
Vans
Walkinshaw
Wallace
Wardlaw
Watson
Wauchope
Wedderburn
Weir
Wemyss
Whitefoord
Whitelaw
Wishart
Wood
Young