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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Shuibhne ‘son of Suibhne’ a byname meaning ‘pleasant’. Compare McSweeney. This name was also used as a Gaelic equivalent of the Old Norse byname Sveinn (see Swain).

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