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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Fhilidh ‘son of the poet’.
  • Irish : Anglicized form of the Connacht name Mac Conghaile ‘son of Conghal’ (see Connolly).

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