Is There a McGillivray Coat of Arms?

If your family name is McGillivray, its origin lies with MacGillivray, a long-established Scottish surname. The family name meaning is “The son of Gillebhrath (servant of judgment or doom)”, the same as for MacGillivray. Records show McGillivray as one of the forms MacGillivray took over time. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists McGillivray with 1,302 bearers, at rank 20,408.

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