MacLeod

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{{Infobox surname

| name = MacLeod

| pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|k|l|aʊ|d}} {{respell|mə|KLOWD}}

| gender = Unisex

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| variant = Macleod, McLeod, M‘Leod, MacLot, McCloud, MacCleod, McCleod

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MacLeod, McLeod and Macleod ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|k|l|aʊ|d}} {{respell|mə|KLOWD}}){{citation |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Macleod |title=Macleod |publisher=Dictionary.com |access-date=6 December 2010}} which cited: {{citation |title=Dictionary.com Unabridged |publisher=Random House }} are surnames in the English language. The names are anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic {{lang|gd|MacLeòid}}, meaning "son of Leòd", derived from the Old Norse Liótr ("ugly").{{citation |last1=Reaney |first1=Percy Hilde |last2=Wilson |first2=Richard Middlewood |title=A Dictionary of English Surnames |edition=3rd |year=2006 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-203-99355-1 |page=2054 }}{{citation |last=Black |first=George Fraser |title=The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History |publisher=New York Public Library |location=New York |year=1946 |pages=538, 933 }}{{Cite web |title=Mcleod Name Meaning & Mcleod Family History at Ancestry.co.uk® |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=mcleod |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=www.ancestry.co.uk}}

One of the earliest occurrences of the surname is of Gillandres MacLeod, in 1227. There are two recognised Scottish clans with the surname: Clan MacLeod of Harris and Skye, and Clan MacLeod of Lewis and Raasay. The earliest record of these two families, using a form of the surname MacLeod, occurs in the mid 14th century.

There are also documented cases of Scottish missionaries in Canada using McLeod as an Anglicisation of the indigenous Cree language name {{lang|cr|Mahkiyoc}} (meaning "the big one"), which accounts for its occurrence amongst Canadian people of Cree heritage.{{cite journal |last=McLead |first=Neal |title=Plains Cree Identity: Borderlands, Ambiguous Genealogies and Narrative Irony |journal=The Canadian Journal of Native Studies |year=2000 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=437–454 |url=http://www3.brandonu.ca/cjns/20.2/cjnsv20no1_pg437-454.pdf |access-date=18 April 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623191458/http://www3.brandonu.ca/cjns/20.2/cjnsv20no1_pg437-454.pdf |archive-date=23 June 2017 }}

People with the surname ''MacLeod'', ''McLeod'', ''Macleod''

People with the given name ''Macleod'', ''McLeod'', ''MacLeod''

Fictional characters with the surnames MacLeod or McLeod

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