"Mac Amhalghaidh Mac Amhalghaidh is an Irish masculine surname. The name translates into English as ""son of ""Amhalghadh"""". The surname originated as a patronym, however it no longer refers to the actual name of the bearer's father. The form of the surname for unmarried females is Nic Amhalghaidh. The forms for married females are Bean Mhic Amhalghaidh and Mhic Amhalghaidh. The Irish ""Mac Amhalghaidh"" has numerous Anglicised forms. The surname has been borne by at least one notable Irish family. A cognate of ""Mac Amhalghaidh"" is the Scottish Gaelic MacAmhalghaidh; the feminine form of which is NicAmhalghaidh. There are several"
"used. While both ""Mac"" and ""Ó'"" prefixes are Gaelic in origin, ""Mac"" is more common in Scotland and in Ulster than in the rest of Ireland; furthermore, ""Ó"" is far less common in Scotland than it is in Ireland. The proper surname for a woman in Irish uses the feminine prefix nic (meaning daughter) in place of mac. Thus a boy may be called Mac Domhnaill whereas his sister would be called Nic Dhomhnaill or Ní Dhomhnaill – the insertion of 'h' follows the female prefix in the case of most consonants (bar H, L, N, R, & T). A"
"""or ""Mag-"" (the last is seen in renderings such as ""Maguire"" for ""Mac Uidhir"") and ""Ó/Ui"" became ""O""'. ""MacGhobhainn"", ""Mac a'Ghobhainn"" and ""Mac Gabhainn"" (""son of the smith"") were anglicised as ""McGowan"", ""Gowan"", ""McGavin"", and ""Gavin"". In surnames which had been prefixed ""Mac"", the final hard ""c"" sound remained when the ""Mac"" was removed. As Gaelic spelling rules required the first letter of a name preceded by Mac or Nic to be lenited (unless it was an l, n, or r) with the addition of an h after (silencing it, or changing its sound), and for the last vowel to"
"anglicised to Smythe or Smith. Mac, which may appear in anglicised contraction as Mc, sometimes written M or, further, abbreviated M', means in English ""son"", but, when an element used to form a Gaelic language patronymic in its usage of ""They have no share in the promise made to the sons of Adam“, that is ""descended"" of a thereafter personal named or nicknamed (sometimes by description as in Gaelic language Duinneshliebhe, anglicised Donlevy, ""brown haired chief of the mountain fort"", Gaelic language gobha ""the smithy"", anglicised Gowan, or the Gaelic language Ultaigh, anglicised Nulty, ""the Ulidian"") founding ancestor or sire"
"McLoughlin McLoughlin is one of nearly two dozen Anglicisms for three Gaelic-Irish surnames: Mac/Nic Lochlainn (most commonly Anglicised ""McLaughlin""), Ó/Ni Máoilsheáchlainn (usually ""McLoughlin"" or ""M'Loughlin""), and Mac/Nic Lochnaigh (usually rendered Loughney but occasionally ""McLoughlin"" or ""MacLoughlin""). ""Mac"" and ""Ó"" are masculine prefixes; ""Ni/Nic"" is feminine. Mac is rendered into English as ""Mac"", ""Mc"" and ""M""'. Ó is rendered ""O' "". The feminine prefix is rendered into English according to its masculine counterpart (e.g. Nic na Mhara > McNamara, Ni hEaghra > O'Hara). They are used with names that originated as patronymics. Occasionally, the prefix ""Mael/Maol"" is Anglicised ""Mac/Mc"". The surname"
"name of a person. As with other culturo-linguistic groups, other types of surnames were often used as well, including trade-names such as ""MacGhobhainn"", ""Mac a'Ghobhainn"" or ""Mac Gabhainn"" (""son of the smith""), and physical characteristics such as hair colour. In Anglicising Gaelic names, the prefixes ""Mac"", ""Nic"", and ""Ó"" were frequently removed (the name ""MacPhearais"", by example, was sometimes anglicised as ""Pierce"" or ""Piers"", identically to the given name; ""Ó Leannáin"" and ""Ó Lionáin"" have both been anglicised as ""Lennon""; ""Ó Ceallaigh"" and ""Ó Cadhla"" have been anglicised as ""Kelly""). Where they were retained, ""Mac"" was often rendered ""Mc"", ""M',"
"Mạc Mạc (Hán tự: 莫) is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Mo in Chinese and Mua in Hmong language. It is also of Gaelic origin, meaning son, used as a prefix in many Irish, and Scottish surnames e.g. MacDonald, and MacGregor. Mac is the anglicized variation of the surname Mạc. As a surname, Mac is the 409th most common surname, in Great Britain, with 23,149 bearers. It is most common in the City of Aberdeen, and Greater Manchester, where it is the 25th and 107th most common surname, in both counties having 3,268 bearers, respectively. Other concentrations"
"Mac Coitir Mac Coitir and Mac Oitir are masculine surnames in the Irish language. The names translate into English as ""son of ""Oitir"""". These surnames originated as a patronyms, however they no longer refers to the actual name of the bearer's father. There are specific forms of these surnames that are borne by married and unmarried females. There are numerous Anglicised forms of these surnames. ""Mac Coitir"" is a variant form of ""Mac Oitir"", where the ""c""-sound has carried over from the ""Mac-"" prefix. According to Patrick Woulfe, who wrote in the early 20th century, the form ""Mac Coitir"" is"
"the settlement of Scottish gallowglass families of mixed Gaelic-Norse -Pict descent, mainly in the north; due to similarities of language and culture they too were assimilated. The Irish were among the first people in Europe to use surnames as we know them today. It is very common for people of Gaelic origin to have the English versions of their surnames beginning with 'Ó' or 'Mac' (Over time however many have been shortened to 'O' or Mc). 'O' comes from the Gaelic Ó which in turn came from Ua, which means ""grandson"", or ""descendant"" of a named person. Mac is the"
"Cormac Cas, King of the Province of Muster in the 3rd century AD. The Irish surname Mac Craith is considered to be patronymic in origin, being a name derived from the first name of the original bearer. The prefix ‘Mac’ in Mac Craith, denotes ‘son of’ and the commonly accepted translation of ‘Craith’ is Grace / Prosperity or Divine Grace. Therefore, the literal translation of McGrath is ‘son of divine grace’. As the native Irish language was replaced by English, so the spelling of the family name Mac Craith was transformed. The most widely used anglicised spelling of Mac Craith"
"Other early records show patronyms using forms of the Welsh ""ap"", meaning ""son""; and the Gaelic ""mac"", meaning son (for example, the names of ""Macrath ap Molegan"", and ""Gilmychel Mac Eth"" appear in the same document). There are several prefixes and suffixes that may indicate whether a modern surname originated from a patronym: the English suffixes ""-son"", and ""-s""; and the Gaelic prefix ""Mac-"". In some cases, the ""-son"" was dropped from such surnames, and just the forename of an ancestor was used (for example ""Martin""). In some cases, the suffix ""-s"" was used, and according to Black, such names"
"spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son. Preferences for different spelling variations usually arose from a division of the family, or for religious reasons, or sometimes patriotic reasons. Church officials and scribes spelt the name as it sounded, sometimes several different ways in the lifetime of the same person. The abbreviations of Mc in front of a name, meaning 'son of' is popular in Irish names, although this is no guarantee that the name is Irish. Many Scottish names also prefer Mc instead of Mac. Officially in both countries, the abbreviation is Mac. In Ireland, frequently O' is also"
"the examples where the 'Mac' or 'Mc' has been dropped can be explained for several reasons. In English controlled areas of Ireland (especially around The Pale), it was declared that the Irish take on names in an English form and many were required to do so in order to do business with the powers that be, or to obtain a tenancy on English controlled land. Census takers were also allowed to use either form, with or without the Gaelic prefix. It also was not uncommon for the 'Mac' or 'Mc' prefix to simply be incorporated into the surname to result"
"have multiple origins. The name may be an Anglicisation of ""Mac an Léigh"" (Scottish Gaelic), meaning ""son of the physician"". In addition to MacLea, the Gaelic language surname Mac an Léigh is also anglicized to McKinley (surname) and MacNulty. The leading theory today, however, is that the name MacLea is derived from the patronymic ""Mac Dhunnshleibhe"", meaning ""son of Donn Sléibhe"" (""son of"" + ""the brown haired"", or ""chieftain"" + ""of the mountain""). In 1910 Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll maintained that the surname MacLea evolved from the name Maconlea, which was originally Mac Dhunnshleibhe. By the eighteenth century"
"McGivern McGivern Is an anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uidhrín, a patronymic from a personal name which is from a diminutive of odhar ‘dun’. This surname is also found in Galloway in Scotland, where it is of Irish origin. They belonged to Cenél Fearadhaigh, or 'race of Ferry', descend from Feradach mac Muiredach (Ferry MacMurdoch), a great-grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, and by the 12th century controlled a large portion of County Tyrone and had penetrated deep into County Fermanagh but where reduced in the mid-14th century, by the Maguires. Annals of Loch Cé Cnoc Mhig Uidhrin, meaning"
"the Gaelic ""Mac Coinnich"", which is a patronymic form of the personal name ""Coinneach"" meaning ""comely"" or ""handsome"". Today personal name ""Coinneach"" is generally Anglicised as ""Kenneth"" however ""Kenneth"" was originally used as an Anglicisation of different Gaelic personal name – ""Cionaodh"". The Anglicised ""Mackenzie"" had originally been pronounced """"Mackaingye"""" – with a modern English ""Y"" sound represented with the letter yogh . In the 18th century it became popular to write and pronounce the name with what is the equivalent of a modern English ""Z"" sound, because of the similarity of the letter ""yogh"" and letter ""Z"". There are"
"the son of ""Sitreac"". The form of ""Mac Sitric"" for married females is ""Bean Mhic Sitric"", whereas the feminine form of ""Mag Sitric"" is ""Bean Mhig Sitric""; these particular feminine names also rendered simply as ""Mhic Sitric"" and ""Mhig Sitric""; these four surnames translate to ""wife of the son of ""Sitreac"". ""Mac Sitric"" has been Anglicised variously as ""MacKittrick"", ""MacKitterick"", ""MacKettrick"", ""MacKetterick"", ""MacKirtrick"", ""Munkittrick"", ""Munkettrick"", ""Kittrick"", ""Kitterick"", and ""Setright"". Anglicised forms of ""Mag Sitric"" include ""MacGetrick"", ""MacGetterick"". Mac Sitric Mac Sitric is masculine surname in the Irish language. The name translates into English as ""son of ""Sitreac"""". The surname originated"
"surname was similar to that preceded by Mac/Nic, but instead was preceded by Ó or Ui, signifying a grandchild or descendant. Not all Gaelic surnames signified relationship to a forebear, however. Some signified an ancestral people or homeland, such as ""MacDhubhghaill"" (son of a dark-haired foreigner; referring to one type of Scandinavian), ""MacFhionnghaill"" (son of a fair-haired foreigner; also referring to a Scandinavian people), MacLachlainn or MacLachlainneach (son of the Scandinavian). Others indicated the town or village of a family's origin, sometimes disguised as an ancestor's name as in Ó Creachmhaoil, which prefixes a toponym as though it was the"
"centuries, under the influence of post-Medieval English practice, this type of surname has become static over generations, handed down the male lineage to all successive generations so that it is no longer indicates the given name of a holder's father any more than the suffix -son on a Germanic language surname does today. Among English-speaking peoples of Gaelic heritage, the use of ""Nic"" as a prefix for daughters has been replaced by ""Mac"", regardless of sex (as per Geraldine McGowan, Alyth McCormack, and Sarah McLachlan). Wives also began to take on the surnames of their husbands. Another common pattern of"
"For example, the Scottish Gaelic surname, ""Nic Dhòmhnaill"" meaning 'daughter of a son of Dòmhnall' (in English, Donald), as in ""Mairi Nic Dhòmhnaill"", or Mary MacDonald. At the north end of the Irish Sea, in Ulster, the Isle of Man and Galloway (indeed as far north as Argyll), ""Mac"" was frequently truncated in speech to /k/, leading to such anglicisations as ""Qualtrough"" (Son of Walter) & ""Quayle"" (son of Paul, cf. MacPhail) – usually beginning with ""C"", ""K"" or ""Q"". In Ireland, this truncation resulted in surnames such as ""Guinness"" (son of Aonghus, cf. MacAonghusa) beginning usually in ""C"" or"
"descended from a late thirteenth-century eponym; another was a sept of the MacDonalds and Camerons, descended from an armiger of Eóin Mac Domhnaill II, Lord of the Isles (died 1503); the name was also borne by a branch of the MacDonalds settled in Ireland. Mac Somhairle The Gaelic surname means ""son of '"". The personal name ' is a Gaelicised form of the Old Norse ' and '. The Old Norse ' is composed of the elements ' (""summer"") and ' (""seafarer""). As such, ' and ' can be taken to mean ""summer warrior"", ""summer seafarer"". Anglicised forms of '"
"Mac Somhairle The Gaelic surname means ""son of '"". The personal name ' is a Gaelicised form of the Old Norse ' and '. The Old Norse ' is composed of the elements ' (""summer"") and ' (""seafarer""). As such, ' and ' can be taken to mean ""summer warrior"", ""summer seafarer"". Anglicised forms of ' include: ""MacSorley"", ""McSorley"", ""Sorley"", and ""Sorlie"". Forms of the surname have been borne by several families of note. For example one such family was Clann Somhairle, descended from Somhairle mac Giolla Brighde (died 1164); another was a family closely related to the Lamonts and"
"Mac Sitric Mac Sitric is masculine surname in the Irish language. The name translates into English as ""son of ""Sitreac"""". The surname originated as a patronym, however it no longer refers to the actual name of the bearer's father. The form Nic Sitric is borne by unmarried females; the forms Bean Mhic Sitric and Mhic Shitric are borne by married females. A variant form of ""Mac Sitric"" is Mag Sitric; the feminine forms of this surname are Nig Sitric, Bean Mhig Sitric, and Mhig Sitric. All these Irish surnames have various Anglicised forms. ""Mac Shitric"" translates into English as ""son"
"Cormac Cormac is a masculine given name in the Irish and English languages. The name is ancient in the Irish language and is also seen in the rendered Old Norse as ""Kormákr"". Mac is Irish for ""son"", and can be used as either a prefix or a suffix. The derivation of ""cor"" is not so clear. The most popular speculation is that it is from ""corb,"" the old Irish for wheel, perhaps designating someone who fought in a cart or chariot as male names are often derived from order of battle. (For instance ""Gary, Garth, etc., from ""gar"" for ""spear."")"
"Gaelic is ""Mackay"" in English, and ""MacGill-Eain"" in Gaelic is ""MacLean"" and so on. ""Mac"" (sometimes ""Mc"") is common as, effectively, it means ""son of"". ""MacDonald"", ""MacAulay"", ""Gilmore"", ""Gilmour"", ""MacKinley"", ""Macintosh"", ""MacKenzie"", ""MacNeill"", ""MacPherson"", ""MacLear"", ""MacAra"", ""Craig"", ""Lauder"", ""Menzies"", ""Galloway"" and ""Duncan"" are just a few of many examples of traditional Scottish surnames. There are, of course, also the many surnames, like ""Wallace"" and ""Morton"", stemming from parts of Scotland which were settled by peoples other than the (Gaelic) Scots. The most common surnames in Scotland are ""Smith"" and ""Brown"", which come from several origins each – e.g. Smith can"
"Mac Torcaill Mac Torcaill is masculine surname in the Irish language. The name translates into English as ""son of ""Torcall"""". The surname originated as a patronym, however it no longer refers to the actual name of the bearer's father. The form ""Nic Thorcaill"" is borne by unmarried females; the forms ""Bean Mhic Thorcaill"" and ""Mhic Thorcaill"" are borne by married females. Variant forms of ""Mac Torcaill"" are ""Mac Thorcaill"" and ""Mac Thurcaill""; the feminine forms of these two names are ""Nic Thorcaill"", ""Nic Thurcaill"", ""Bean Mhic Thorcaill"", ""Bean Mhic Thurcaill"", ""Mhic Thorcaill"", and ""Mhic Thurcaill"". All these Irish surnames have"
"origin. Mac Torcaill Mac Torcaill is masculine surname in the Irish language. The name translates into English as ""son of ""Torcall"""". The surname originated as a patronym, however it no longer refers to the actual name of the bearer's father. The form ""Nic Thorcaill"" is borne by unmarried females; the forms ""Bean Mhic Thorcaill"" and ""Mhic Thorcaill"" are borne by married females. Variant forms of ""Mac Torcaill"" are ""Mac Thorcaill"" and ""Mac Thurcaill""; the feminine forms of these two names are ""Nic Thorcaill"", ""Nic Thurcaill"", ""Bean Mhic Thorcaill"", ""Bean Mhic Thurcaill"", ""Mhic Thorcaill"", and ""Mhic Thurcaill"". All these Irish surnames"
"surname MacKinley, arises instead from a Gaelic language nickname given the MacDonlevy in both the Scottish Highlands and elsewhere. That nickname is Mac an Leigh, translating to English as leech, but meaning a physician. Leeching (medical) was in Gaelic Ireland, Scotland and elsewhere for millennium a pervasive medical therapy. The MacDonlevy were also one of Ireland’s ancient hereditary medical families. Notable people with the surname include: Clan McLea McClay McClay is a Scottish surname. It is a Highland’s adaption of the Irish Gaelic ""Mac Duinnshléibhe"" (Anglicised Donlevy) where the Scots aspirated the “D” and then dropped the final “e” from"
"the standard form of the name had become MacLea or other forms with similar spellings (MacLeay, McClay, etc.). This is largely a distinction without significance, though, as Mac an Léigh is a nickname surname which was given to the Mac Dhunnshleibhe by the indigenous populations in both Ulster and the Scottish Highlands and which was, eventually, adopted as a substitute surname by the Mac Dhunnshleibhe themselves. The Mac Dhunnshleibhe royals were also one of Ireland’s ancient hereditary medical families. The surname Livingstone/Livingston is derived from the placename, modern Livingston, which is in West Lothian, Scotland. Livingston was in turn named"
"Mac Amhlaoibh and Mac Amhalghaidh (Irish septs) Mac Amhlaoibh and Mac Amhalghaidh are two different Gaelic patronymic names with different origins and meanings, but which share the same or similar Anglicisations. These Gaelic names are borne by at least three unrelated native Irish clans or septs (a division or part of a clan). The Mac Amhalghaidh sept was historically centred at Ballyloughloe in Co Westmeath; the Mac Amhlaoibh sept of the MacCarthy family was centred at Newmarket; and the Mac Amhlaoibh sept of the Maguire family was centred in the barony of Clanawley in County Fermanagh. Today Anglicised forms of"
"McQueen (surname) McQueen, Mcqueen, and MacQueen, Macqueen are English-language surnames derived from Scottish Gaelic. There have been several differing etymologies given for the surnames; as well as several differing ways to represent the surname in modern Scottish Gaelic. The surnames are not among the most common surnames in the United Kingdom, Australia, nor the United States. There have been several differing etymologies given for the surname. One view is that it is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic ""MacShuibhne"", which means ""son of ""Suibhne"""". The Gaelic name ""Suibhne"" is a byname, which means ""pleasant"". This Gaelic name was also used"
"the first to use the surname. It is due to the Anglicization of the original Gaelic that the several spelling variations have emerged, during the transcribing of the name into English. As well, all variations upon the O'Neill spelling are incorrect. This is mainly due to the lack of literacy and ability to spell, (common of the times) and people wishing to associate themselves with the O'Neill royalty. Irish and Scottish variants also exist and include MacNeal, MacNiel and MacNeill, which arose when the ""ua"" element in the name was replaced with ""mac"", meaning ""son of."" Ó has replaced Ua"
"""MacCauley"", ""MacCawley"", ""MacCowley"", Cauley, ""Cawley"", and ""Cowley"". Many of these English-language surnames also have unrelated origins. For example, in many cases the Irish ""Mac Amhalghadha"" and ""Mac Amhalghaidh"" have been Anglicised into identical forms. The surname has been borne by several notable and unrelated Irish families. One such family was centred in County Cork, and seated at Castle MacAuliffe near Newmarket. This family was a branch of the MacCarthy family. Another family, centred in County Fermanagh in the barony of Clanawley, was a branch of the Maguires of Fermanagh. Mac Amhlaoibh Mac Amhlaoibh is a masculine surname in the Irish"