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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Mhàrtainn or Mac Mhàrtuinn, formerly Mac Gille Mhartainn, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘servant of (Saint) Martin’.

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