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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Onchon ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Onchú’, an Old Irish personal name perhaps meaning ‘mighty hound’. St. Onchú was a 6th-century Irish pilgrim and collector of holy relics. See also McClenahan.

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