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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cuairt or Mac Cuarta, apparently meaning ‘son of a journey’, which Woulfe suggests may be a reduced form of Mac Muircheartaigh (see McMurtry).

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