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Last name origin & meaning:

Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Fhionndaig (Scottish), Mac Giolla Fhionntóg (Irish) ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Finndag’, a personal name derived from a pet form of fionn ‘white’. According to Woulfe, the Scottish family settled in Donegal in the late 16th century.

This name appears in the following lists: Nobel Prize Winners

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