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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cuinn ‘son of Conn’, a personal name meaning ‘chieftain’ (literally ‘head’ or ‘sense’).
  • Irish : variant of the Ulster surname MacIlchon, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Mhíolchon ‘son of Míolcha’, a personal name meaning ‘hare-hound’, from míol ‘hare’ + ‘hound’, genitive con.

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