Meaning & origin
What it means
McAvaney goes back to Irish Mac Aibhne, meaning “son of Aibhne.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
McAvaney’s family of names
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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