Etymology

Colquhoun

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Today it means: A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Full definition →

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The story

Habitational surname borrowed from Scottish Gaelic, possibly from cùil (“nook, angle, corner”) + cumhang (“narrow, close”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.