Maclennan, or McLennan, is ordinarily a surname. The first settler in my county in Central Texas was Neil McLennan, who was born on the Isle of Skye in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. MacLennan is a surname from Invernesshire in Scotland, according to Ancestry.com
Is the FIRST name Maclennan Irish or Scottish?
Neither. It's a Scottish SURname.
Donna L is wrong - "Mac" isn't "Scottish" (Scots is a Germanic language) but Scots Gaelic. And there was no such name as "Lennan". MacLennan is an anglicized form of Mac Gille Fhinneain, meaning ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Fionnán’.
Reply:"Mac" means "son of" in Scottish. So Maclennan would be "son of Lennan".
Reply:Scottish.
Reply:Scottish
Reply:Scottish
Reply:Whether a first or last name, Maclennan is Scots Gaelic.
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