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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uilleim, a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of William, frequently Anglicized as Williamson.
  • Northern Irish : variant of McQuillan.

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