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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : of uncertain origin. The letter z was used in Older Scots to represent the obsolete letter {yogh} (yogh), pronounced variously as ‘y’, ‘g’, or a gutteral fricative, so this may be a Scottish variant of McGill.

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