GUTHRIE

Warlike, powerful in war, from guth, Saxon, war. Guthmor, Gaelic, loud-voiced. Guthrie, a town in Scotland. Gutric, Gotric, Gotricus, rich in goodness, rich in God.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

GUTHRIE. An estate in Forfarshire, Scotland. This might be considered a tolerably satisfactory origin for the name, especially as the family continue to vrvxie themselves 'of that Ilk,' to the present day. Tradition, however, has invented another, which is amusingly absurd ; I give it as I find it in Chambers' Popular Eliymes of Scotland : —

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.