Given name & surname · also Gaelic
Mcaleer
“son of the servant of (Saint) Odhar”
McAleer is a surname from Scottish Gaelic, ultimately from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
McAleer goes back to Irish Mac Giolla Uidihir, meaning “son of the servant of (Saint) Odhar.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
McAleer comes from Scottish Gaelic, and ultimately from Irish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Mac Giolla Uidihir (“son of the servant of (Saint) Odhar”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mcaleer’s family of names
In English usage, Mcaleer as a surname has a related form in MCALEAR.
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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