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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Lanarkshire) and northern Irish : reduced form of Mac Warnock, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhearnóg ‘son of the devotee of St. Mearnóg’. St Mearnóg is the patron saint of Kilmarnock.

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