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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cumhaighe ‘son of Cú Mhaighe’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the plain’. This was the original form from the nominative, which replaced the genitive form Mac Con Mhaighe.

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