Guthrie Family History

Scottish: habitational name from a place near Forfar named in Gaelic with gaothair ‘windy place’ (a derivative of gaoth ‘wind’) + the locative suffix -ach. Scottish: possibly an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mag Uchtre ‘son of Uchtre’, a personal name which is perhaps akin to uchtlach ‘child’.

Irish (Clare and Antrim): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh ‘descendant of Flaitheamh’, a byname meaning ‘prince’. This is the result of an erroneous association of the Gaelic name in the form Ó Fhlaithimh (Fh being silent) with the Gaelic word laithigh ‘mud’.

Additionally, there was a mistaken link between mud and gutters, as well as an inaccurate connection of the Scottish surname Guthrie with the word ‘gutter’. Compare Laffey.