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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Adaidh, a patronymic from a Gaelic form of the personal name Adam.
  • Scottish and northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Conduibh (see McAdoo).

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