Etymology

Kilgour

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

Scottish Gaelic coille
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromcoille“wood”
  2. English todayKilgour

Habitational surname from a place in Fife, from Scottish Gaelic coille (“wood”) + gobhar (“goat”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.