The placename Leckie (Leky, Lekke, Lekky, are old forms of the name)

The first known owner of Leckie is said to have been a certain Malise de Leckie during the invasion of Edward I of England.

Sir Herbert Maxwell, in his “Scottish Land Names”, (p152) says: “Leachan, a derivation of leac, a flagstone, is occasionally used to denote a sloping hillside. From another variant, leacach, comes Leckie in Stirlingshire, most appropriately named from its position on the north flank of the Lennox range.” We should be inclined to derive Leckie from the substantive leacann, the side of the hill, rather than from the adjective leachach, but the root word is the same.”

Mr. Mathieson, in his “Place Names of Elginshire,” derives Lekin in the parish of Knockando from the Gaelic leacann, steep shelving ground on the side of a hill. Leac, the root, originally means a large flat stone, especially a stone to mark a grave.