Quote Originally Posted by CDNSushi View Post

I imagine that the rule you quoted is intended to keep out tartan names that might be racist, sexist, somehow offensive... Is MacEvil offensive?
It's not offensive, but it is a phonetic English spelling of one of the Gaelic versions of the name MacMillan:

MacQwhewyl; MacChewill; MacKevoil; MacEvoil (McEvill, etc.). [THE MACMILLANS AND THEIR SEPTS, by Somerled MacMillan, Glasgow, 1952.]

As far as I know, there is nothing to prevent someone designing a tartan and naming it after an existing clan-- Black MacMillan being the most recent example of a fashion tatrtan being designed, registered, and marketed without the knowledge or approval of a clan chief.

Unlike the instance just cited, I doubt the designers were aware of the name "MacEvil", and I certainly don't think they have any intention of marketing it as a "clan" tartan in the same way the designers of Black MacMillan marketed their tartan as a "Clan MacMillan" tartan.

Still, it does show a certain "lack of care and due diligence" on the part of the registering authority in accepting the names submitted to them by tartan designers.