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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