Surname · also Gaelic
McAnespie
“son of the bishop”
McAnespie is a surname from Scottish Gaelic, ultimately from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
McAnespie goes back to Irish Mac an Easpaig, meaning “son of the bishop.”
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Where it comes from
McAnespie comes from Scottish Gaelic, and ultimately from Irish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Mac an Easpaig (“son of the bishop”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
McAnespie’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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