Meaning & origin
What it means
McCarney goes back to Irish Mac Cearnaigh, meaning “son of Cearnach.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mccarney’s family of names
In English usage, Mccarney as a surname has a related form in Karney.
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Nicknames & forms 1
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.
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