Scotland Family History

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.

An ethnic name for someone from Scotland, derived from Middle English Scotlond ‘Scotland’. Compare England. The origin is traced back to 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 it may be habitational from a place so named, such as Scotland Farm in Godshill (Isle of Wight).

It is also a habitational name from Scotlandwell in Portmoak (Kinross), whose name is of transparent origin but uncertain significance.