McBlain
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editReduced Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Blatháin (“son of the servant of Saint Blane”).
Proper noun
editMcBlain (plural McBlains)
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, McBlain is the 2396th most common surname in Scotland, belonging to 259 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “McBlain”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 544.
- Forebears