Given name & surname
Mcniven
“son of Naoimhín”
McNiven is a surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
McNiven goes back to Scottish Gaelic Mac Naoimhín, meaning “son of Naoimhín.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Scottish Gaelic Mac Naoimhín (“son of Naoimhín”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mcniven’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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