What clan does the Cunningham name come from?

Question

All I know is that it is a Scottish name. I want to know which clan.

Answer 1

The Cunninghams are a Scottish Clan. They are a lowland clan as opposed to a highland clan.

They do not currently have a chief, however so they are considered to be an Armigerous clan.

Warnebald Cunningham was the first of the Cunninghams. The clan's origins date back to 1059. When it was the Thanedom of Cunninghame.

Answer 2

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,

Cunningham Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from a district in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English place-name element -ingham.

Irish: surname adopted from Scottish by bearers of Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader’, ‘chief’.

and here is a web site that you may be able to find which clan it comes from.

http://www.heraldry.co.uk/nametemplate.p...

http://www.heraldry.co.uk/scottish_clans...

hope this helps.