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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ailín or Mac Aileáin ‘son of Allen’ (see Allen).
  • Irish : when not Scottish, it can be a variant of McCallion, in counties Donegal and Kerry.

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