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Pages in category "Surnames of Irish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 698 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent.. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.
Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames frequently have the prefix Mac or Mc. When these surnames were originally developed, they were formed by adding the Gaelic word, mac, which means son of, to the name of the original bearer's father, or to the father's trade.
M(a)cLaughlin / m ɪ ˈ k l ɒ x l ɪ n / is the most common Anglicized form of Mac Lochlainn, a masculine surname of Irish origin. The feminine form of the surname is Nic Lochlainn. The literal meaning of the name is "son of Lochlann". [2] Note that Mc is simply a contraction of Mac, which is also (albeit rarely) truncated to M' .
McGill, MacGill, Macgill and Magill are surnames of Irish and Scottish origin, an Anglicisation of Gaelic Mac an Ghoill meaning "son of the foreigner". In the 2000 United States Census the surname was ranked the 1,218th most common.
Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form. Some Irish names have false cognates, i.e. names that look similar but are not etymologically related, e.g. Áine is commonly accepted as the Irish equivalent of the etymologically unrelated names Anna and Anne. During the "Irish revival", some Irish ...
Pages in category "Irish-language surnames" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total. ... This page was last edited on 20 December 2020, at 23:09 ...
The nickname was Mac an Leigh. Per this scenario the Gaelic language patronymic forming prefix "Mac" (meaning "descended of") [2] [3] [4] is joined to the Gaelic language "Léigh" meaning leech, but denoting a physician. [5] [6] Leeching having been for millennia, in Gaelic Ireland and elsewhere, a commonly employed medical practice. [7]