Colquhoun

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Colquhoun

/kəˈhuːn/ UK

Rhymes with -uːn

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Habitational surname borrowed from Scottish Gaelic, possibly from cùil (“nook, angle, corner”) + cumhang (“narrow, close”).

proper noun Colquhouns

A surname from Scottish Gaelic. For more than 750 years the lochside village of Luss has been the home of the chiefs of the Colquhoun clan.

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@misc{colquhoun_2026,
  title = {Colquhoun},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/colquhoun},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}