MacGill Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

The last name MacGill is a variant form of McGill, a well-known Scottish family name. At root, the name means “Son of the stranger”.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to McGill and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

MacGill and McGill

Before spelling was fixed, McGill was also written MacGill. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

In the 2010 US Census, 275 Americans gave MacGill as their last name (rank 71,042). It sits among the 100,000 most common last names in the country. For the full story, order the MacGill surname pack.