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McMahon or MacMahon (/ m ə k ˈ m æ n / mək-MAN or / m ə k ˈ m ɑː n / mək-MAHN; older Irish orthography: Mac Mathghamhna; reformed Irish orthography: Mac Mathúna; meaning "son of the bear") [1] is an Irish surname.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
The name is often anglicised as its English language equivalent Patrick or phonetically, e.g. Pauric. Diminutives include Páidín , Páidí (both anglicised as 'Paudeen' and ' Paddy ', respectively), and the feminine equivalent Pádraigín ( little Patrick ), which was originally an exclusively masculine name before later being viewed as the ...
Vaughan and Vaughn are surnames, originally Welsh, though also used as a form of the Irish surname McMahon. [1] Vaughan derives from the Welsh word bychan, meaning "small", and so corresponds to the English name Little and the Breton cognate Bihan. The word mutates to Fychan (Welsh:) an identifier for a younger sibling or next of kin.
It is an anglicized version of the Irish name Séaghan/Séan, which itself is cognate to the name John. [1] Shane comes from the way the name Seán is pronounced in the Ulster dialect of the Irish language, as opposed to Shaun or Shawn. Shane is sometimes used as a feminine given name, from the Yiddish name Shayna, meaning "beautiful".
Aoife (/ ˈ iː f ə / EE-fə, Irish:) is an Irish and Gaelic feminine given name. The name is probably derived from the Irish Gaelic aoibh , which means "beauty" or "radiance". [ 1 ] It has been compared to the Gaulish name Esvios (Latinized Esuvius , feminine Esuvia ), which may be related to the tribal name Esuvii and the theonym Esus .
Matheson is a surname derived from either an anglicised form of Scottish Gaelic surnames or the patronymic form of a short form of the English Matthew. [1] This English personal name is ultimately derived from the Biblical Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū), which means "gift of God". [2]
A less common variant is the name Lauchlan. Modern patronymic forms of the personal name Lochlann include the Irish surnames Mac Lochlainn, [26] and Ó Lochlainn. [27] A patronymic form of the personal name Lachlann is the Scottish Gaelic surname MacLachlainn. [28] Forms of the personal names first appear on record in the tenth century.