Certainly clans or names could be outlawed prior to 1750, to answer your question. Rob Roy MacGregor couldn't use the name MacGregor and had to use his mother's name, Campbell, for God's sake! At least that's the history I read. Regicide--think MacBeth and James I--would certainly have been a reason for a clan being proscripted, and there were many instances of clan chiefs being stripped of their titles, stipped of lands, and even expatriated (the Robertson bearing some of that indignity BTW) due to treason and such in the various uprisings.
It is my limited understanding that most of the proscriptions were lifted after a sufficient time had passed.
That's my best non-scholarly answer to your original question. I do have a degree in history, but ancient Scottish history is mostly self-taught and hit or miss, not a field of expertise by any means. Some of my sources may have been suspect and not peer reviewed. But I do tend to give credence to information that is consistent with other sources.
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