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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Péice, a patronymic from the personal name Péic, which Woulfe links to Old English Pic (see Pike 5), although MacLysaght derives it from Old English peac ‘thickset man’.

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