Common Mi’kmaw Surnames
The following are common Mi’kmaw surnames. List also includes locations where these names are most likely to be found:
- Alex – Nova Scotia
- Augustine – New Brunswick
- Basque – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Battiste – Nova Scotia
- Beadle – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Brooks – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Cabot – Nova Scotia
- Christmas – Nova Scotia
- Clair – New Brunswick
- Cope – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Cremo – Nova Scotia
- Dedam – New Brunswick
- Dennis – Nova Scotia
- Denny – Nova Scotia
- Doucette – Nova Scotia
- Francis – Nova Scotia
- Gabriel – Nova Scotia
- Gehue – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Ginnish – New Brunswick
- Gloade – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Googoo – Nova Scotia
- Gould – Nova Scotia
- Herney – Nova Scotia
- Isaac – Nova Scotia
- Isadore – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Jeddore – Newfoundland
- Joe – Nova Scotia
- Johnson – Nova Scotia
- Joseph – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Julian – Nova Scotia
- Julien – Nova Scotia
- Knockwood – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Labillois – New Brunswick
- Labrador – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Lafford – Nova Scotia
- Levi – New Brunswick
- Lewis – Nova Scotia
- Maloney – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Marble – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Marr – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Marshall – Nova Scotia
- Martin – Restigouche
- Mc Ewan – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Metallic – Quebec
- Meuse – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Michael – Nova Scotia
- Milliea – New Brunswick
- Moore – Nova Scotia
- Morris – Nova Scotia
- Morrison – Nova Scotia
- Muise – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Nevin – Nova Scotia
- Nicholas – Nova Scotia
- Noel – Nova Scotia
- Patles – New Brunswick
- Paul – Nova Scotia
- Peck – Nova Scotia
- Peters – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Phillips – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Pictou – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Pierro – Nova Scotia
- Poulette – Nova Scotia
- Prosper – Nova Scotia
- Richard – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Sack – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Sanipass – New Brunswick
- Sappier – New Brunswick
- Simon – Nova Scotia
- Smith – Nova Scotia
- Sock – Nova Scotia (mainland)
- Stevens – Nova Scotia
- Sylliboy – Nova Scotia
- Tomah – Nova Scotia
- Toney – Nova Scotia
- Wilmot – Nova Scotia
- Young – Nova Scotia
Mi’kmaq surnames taken from Change in the Real Property Law of a Cape Breton Island Micmac Band Vol.2 by Daniel P. Strouthes, a doctoral thesis written at Yale University, 1994, pp.751-751.
