Variants of the name

No significance to a variant spellings of the title around English & these are the matter of individual preference whether of these utilizes the prefix Mac or even even Mc or the capital or lower example D. In a late 18th Century the prefix M' was besides utilized & a title has too been anglicized per apply of the suffix son, i.e. Donaldson. That said, it was typically a Keppoch and Glengarry branches who adopted a MacDonell spelling & a Antrim personal tend to have McDonnell. A variant McConnell is as well popular inside Ireland. Inside Scottish Gaelic, they are typically known together when Na Domhnallaich, or even Siol Dhomhnaill (Offspring of Donald).

Historical notes

Inside 1692, a total of Macdonalds were flushed in the Massacre of Glencoe when an initiative to suppress Jacobitism was entangled in a long running feud between the Macdonalds & Clan Campbell.