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Origin Of The Surname Mcnaught
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Meaning Of The Surname Mcnaught
Descendant of Naughton
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Interesting
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Mcnaught
McNaught is of Gaelic origin, this is denoted by the prefixed ‘Mc’. ‘Mc’ is used in Gaelic names to mean ‘the descendant of’ and is then followed by the family name. The name in this case is Naught which has two possible origins. It could come from the Irish MacKnight meaning descendant of the Knight. It could also however be an abbreviation of the Scottish ‘Naughton’ which is the anglicised form of the Gaelic first name Neachdain meaning ‘purity’. |
Mcnaught Statistics
Mcnaught is the number 1609 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,414 share the surname Mcnaught in the UK.
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