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