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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Galway) and Scottish (Ayr, Galloway) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thaidhg (Scottish Gaelic Mac Thaoig) ‘son of Tadhg’, a name meaning ‘poet’, ‘philosopher’.

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