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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish and Scottish (Galloway) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Reachtain, Ulster variant of Mac Neachtain (see McNaughton), with the replacement of n by r in the cluster cn that is characteristic of Ulster Irish.

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