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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Galloway) and Irish : Anglicized form of Mac an Ghoill ‘son of the lowlander or stranger’. In Ireland the name was given to the descendants of early Anglo-Norman settlers.
  • Scottish (Galloway) and Irish : probably in some cases a short form of a surname beginning Mac Giolla.

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