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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Mealláin ‘son of Meallán’, a personal name formed as a diminutive of meall ‘pleasant’.
  • Irish : alternatively perhaps an Anglicized form of the Gaelic patronymic Mac Maoláin, which is more commonly Anglicized as McMillan.

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