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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Mhílidh ‘son of the knight’ (from Gaelic míleadh ‘warrior’, ‘knight’). In County Mayo a family of English origin changed their name from Staunton to McEvilly.

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