Etymology

Moncrief

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

Scottish Gaelic monadh
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived frommonadh“mountain, hill”
  2. English todayMoncrief

Scottish habitational surname from a place near Perth, from Scottish Gaelic monadh (“mountain, hill”) + craoibhe, genitive of craobh (“tree”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.