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