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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Húg (Hugo)’, a personal name that was used as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Aodh (see McCoy).
  • Scottish and northern Irish : Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac Dhabhóg ‘son of David’.

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