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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : reduced form of Mac Clingan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gilla Fhinnéin ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Finnian’, also Anglicized as Mac Alingen.

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