The MacLellan Family Name

One surname, two spellings: MacLellan and McClellan. The name is generally explained as “Son of St Fillan's servant”.

Spelling and variants

Spelled with “a” instead of “c”, MacLellan shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include MacClellan, McLellan and MacLelan.

1,001 Americans were listed as MacLellan in the 2010 census.

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