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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giobúin, a patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Gilbert, found in Connacht and Limerick in Ireland, and also in Scotland, where it is sometimes Anglicized as McKibben.

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