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The mackey Surname

mackey Name Meaning and History

  1. Pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, this is Irish, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macdha ‘descendant of Macdha’, a personal name meaning ‘virile’, ‘manly’.
  2. With the stress on the second syllable, it is a variant of Scottish and Irish McKay.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mackey Families in the US in 1920
Number of mackey families
 322-641
 108-321		 1-107
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