From Johnstoun, ‘John's town’, in the Scottish Borders — a Plantation surname, heavily settled across Ulster from the early 1600s.
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Scottish Origin · Root meaning ‘John's settlement’
Johnston is a toponymic, taking its name from Johnstoun in Dumfriesshire, one of the Scottish Border clans that supplied large numbers of settlers to the Plantation of Ulster. It never had, and never needed, a Gaelic form — it arrived a finished name.
A place-name from the Scottish Borders that became, within a generation or two, as Ulster as the counties it settled in.
Irish form: (no Gaelic form)
