MacCracken

[slohairt]

Hard to say without some genealogical research. There were often families/clans with the same name but completely unrelated. Since "mac" surnames are patronymics based on a man's personal name, you can imagine there was more than one Neachdann back in the day! So, a family called MacNaughton/MacCracken were (obviously) MacNaughtons. Another family of the same name (though no relation) was a sept of Maclean.

Incidentally, I think MacRankine is usually Anglicised from Mac Fhraingin. A different name entirely.

[SteveB]

Clans & Tartans of Scotland by James MacKay, London:2000 Lists MacCracken as sept of Maclean. However the only real way is through a thorough research of ones genealogy.

Steve