First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eachainn ‘son of Eachann’, a personal name composed of Celtic each ‘horse’ + donn ‘lord’ and Anglicized as Hector.