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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain (in Connacht) and Mac Eoin (in east Ulster), both meaning ‘son of John’, and possibly also of Ó Ceantháin in Co. Fermanagh.

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