Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of MacGlave, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Laithimh (see Glavin 2).
  • English : variant of Gleave.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named in Mecklenberg-West Pomerania.

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