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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Uidhir (Scottish), Mac Giolla Uidhir (Irish), probably ‘son of the sallow lad’.
  • Scottish and northern Irish : Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Dheòradha, Irish Mac Giolla Dheóradha ‘son of the servant of the pilgrim’.

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