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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Asgaill ‘son of Asgall’, a reduced Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Ásketill, composed of the elements óss, áss ‘god’ + ketill ‘kettle’.

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