Elgin

Meanings

1. A surname.
2. A placename:
3. A town in Moray council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, the original place from which the others were named.
4. A large valley southeast of Cape Town, South Africa.
5. A number of places in Canada:
6. An unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Grassland, Manitoba.
7. A rural community and parish in Albert County, New Brunswick.
8. A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
9. A hamlet in Rideau Lakes, Ontario.
10. A county in Ontario; see Elgin County.
11. A rural municipality in Quebec.
12. A number of places in the United States:

Etymology

* As a Scottish surname, derived from the place in Morayshire, from Scottish Gaelic Eilginn, possibly meaning little Ireland, from Èirinn. * As a Turkish surname, from the obsolete noun elgin (“stranger”); see el. * The village in New Brunswick is probably named in honour of colonial administrator James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863). The civil parish is named after the village.