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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : (Ulster) Anglicized form of Scottish Mac Neachtain, which is usually Anglicized as McNaughton.
  • Irish : part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the horseman (Gaelic ridire)’.

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