Scotland Family History
Scotland Name Meaning
English and Scottish (Kinross and Clackmannanshire):: from the Middle English personal name Scotland Scolland. Found in Normandy as well as England it evidently denoted a Scot or someone with an association with Scotland. ethnic name for someone from Scotland from Middle English Scotlond ‘Scotland’. Compare England . from Middle English scot ‘payment tax’ (Old French escot) + lond ‘land’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived on or by land subject to a tax or customary payment or habitational from a place so named such as Scotland Farm in Godshill (Isle of Wight). habitational name from Scotlandwell in Portmoak (Kinross) whose name is of transparent origin but uncertain significance.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
