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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish : probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an tSasanaigh ‘son of the Saxon (i.e. the Englishman)’. Another Anglicized version of this name is McAtasney.

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