The urquhart Surname
urquhart Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from any of four places so called. One
in Fife is found in old records (1128) as Pettnaurcha, a
Pictish-Gaelic name meaning ‘the portion of the shot’. Others,
including one on Loch Ness, are named with Welsh ar ‘on’, ‘by’
+ cardden ‘thicket’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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