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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Ayrshire) and northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Chruiteir ‘son of the harpist or fiddler’, from Gaelic cruitear ‘harpist’, ‘fiddler’.

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