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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Fhionnáin ‘son of Fionnán’ (see McLennan). This name, from a diminutive of fionn ‘white’, ‘fair’, was borne by several early Irish saints.

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