What Is The Meaning Of The Scottish Name MacCombie?

The name is a form of the Gaelic form MacThomaidh meaning son of Tommy or Tommie.
Other forms of the name are MacCombe, MacComie, Macomie. The Gaelic name is MacComaidh.

The 'b' was introducedaround the end of the eighteenth century. The name in Perthshire is often seen in it's Anglicised form Thomson.

the MacComies of the area around Glenshee are fist found in the period around the latter half of the C14, appearing as a distict family sometime during the C16.
They are described as being ab antiquo tenants and 'possessors' of land in a feu charter of he lands of Finnegand and Glenbeg, granted to John McComey in 1571.
John Colmie was forfeited for assisting the Marquis of Montrose in 1645, whilst a Patrick McKommie seems to have had a bad reputation as a 'charmer' ( presumably of the ladies?) at Kildrummie in 1663.

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