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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : reduced form of McKay.
  • French : topographic name for someone who lived in a house on a quayside, from Old French quai ‘quay’.
  • A Quay of unknown specific origin is documented in Repentigny, Quebec, in 1694, with the secondary surname <xref>Dragon</xref>.

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