Given name & surname · also Gaelic
Mcchesney
“son of the Englishman”
McChesney is a surname from Scottish Gaelic, ultimately from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
McChesney goes back to Irish Mac an tSasanaigh, meaning “son of the Englishman.”
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Where it comes from
McChesney comes from Scottish Gaelic, and ultimately from Irish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Mac an tSasanaigh (“son of the Englishman”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mcchesney’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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