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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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