McBlain

English

Alternative forms

• McBlane

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Blatháin (“son of the servant of Saint Blane”).

Proper noun

McBlain (plural McBlains)

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, McBlain is the 2396^th most common surname in Scotland, belonging to 259 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “McBlain”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 544.
• Forebears