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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of McCammack.
  • English : habitational name from Cammock in Settle, North Yorkshire, possibly a Celtic name meaning ‘crooked one’, referring to a lofty hill in a bend of the Ribble river.
  • English : perhaps a nickname for a prickly person, from Old English cammoc ‘thorny shrub’.

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