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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and Irish : probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Suibhne (see McSweeney) or of a Gaelic patronymic based on Old Norse sveinn ‘boy’, ‘servant’, which was also used as a personal name.

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