<P> MacMillan , Macmillan , McMillen or McMillan are variants of a Scottish surname . The origin of the name is said to derive from the origin of the Scottish Clan MacMillan . The progenitor of the Clan was said to be Airbertach , Hebridean prince of the old royal house of Moray . Airbertach had a son named Cormac , who was a Bishop , and Cormac 's own son Gilchrist or , in Gaelic , Gille Chriosd , the progenitor of the Clann an Mhaoil , was a religious man like his father ; and it was because of this that he wore the tonsure which gave him the nickname Maolan or Gillemaol . As a Columban priest , his head would have been shaved over the front of his head in the style of Saint John the Evangelist , rather than at the vertex of head ( the dominant style in The Church of Rome ) . This distinctive tonsure is described in Gaelic as ' Mhaoillan ' . The name MacMillan thus literally means , `` son of the tonsure '' . </P>
<P> MacMillan , Macmillan , McMillen or McMillan are variants of a Scottish surname . The origin of the name is said to derive from the origin of the Scottish Clan MacMillan . The progenitor of the Clan was said to be Airbertach , Hebridean prince of the old royal house of Moray . Airbertach had a son named Cormac , who was a Bishop , and Cormac 's own son Gilchrist or , in Gaelic , Gille Chriosd , the progenitor of the Clann an Mhaoil , was a religious man like his father ; and it was because of this that he wore the tonsure which gave him the nickname Maolan or Gillemaol . As a Columban priest , his head would have been shaved over the front of his head in the style of Saint John the Evangelist , rather than at the vertex of head ( the dominant style in The Church of Rome ) . This distinctive tonsure is described in Gaelic as ' Mhaoillan ' . The name MacMillan thus literally means , `` son of the tonsure '' . </P>
where does the last name mcmillan come from
where does the last name mcmillan come from
the Scottish Clan MacMillan
the Scottish Clan MacMillan