Family name origins & meanings
- Irish (Ulster) and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhuidhe ‘son of the yellow-haired lad’.
- Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhíodhbhuidhe, a patronymic, originally (the genitive has been altered) from fíodhbhadhach ‘woodman’. In east Ulster this surname has sometimes been used in place of McVeigh.