Meaning & origin
What it means
Macartney is a form of McCartney. McCartney goes back to Scottish Gaelic Mac Artaine, meaning “son of Artan.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Macartney is a form of McCartney. McCartney comes from Scottish Gaelic, and ultimately from Old Irish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Macartney through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 413 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Macartney’s family of names
In English usage, Macartney as a surname has a related form in MCCARTNEY.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Macartney
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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