Given name & surname

Mcsween

“son of Suibhne”

McSween is a surname with more than one origin.

Meaning & origin

What it means

As a Scottish Gaelic surname, McSween goes back to a word meaning “son of Suibhne.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

McSween has more than one origin: as a Scottish Gaelic surname, it goes back to a word meaning “son of Suibhne”; as a Scottish surname, it comes from Old Norse sveinn.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Mcsween’s family of names

In English usage, Mcsween as a surname has a related form in McQueen.

Walk Mcsween’s family in the name graph

McsweenMcswainMcQueenMacSuain

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Mcsween, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Gaelic

McSwan

“boy, servant”

No U.S. birth series

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Gaelic

McEwen

“the son of Ewen”

No U.S. birth series

60% boys · 40% girls

Gaelic

Mellen

“the little pleasant one”

No U.S. birth series

17% boys · 83% girls

Gaelic

Sween

“land cleared by burning”

No U.S. birth series

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Gaelic

Skeen

“hawthorn”

No U.S. birth series

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Gaelic

Mccowen

“son of Eoghan”

No U.S. birth series

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Gaelic

Mceuen

“son of Eòghan”

No U.S. birth series

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Gaelic

Mcspadden

“son of Spáidín”

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Mcsween’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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