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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Chrosáin ‘son of the satirist’, a patronymic from crosán ‘reciter of satirical verse’, ‘satirist’ (originally a cross bearer in a religious procession).

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