Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish : Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Gille Fhionntain (Scottish), Mac Giolla Fhionntáin (Irish) ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Fintán’, a personal name derived from a pet form of fionn ‘white’, or Fintan, an older name composed of the elements find ‘white’ + senos ‘old’ .