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macon Name Meaning and History

  1. (Maçon): occupational name for a mason, French maçon.
  2. habitational name from places so called in Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Aube, the Côte d’Or, Gers, and Deux-Sères.
  3. from the old oblique form of a Germanic personal name Mako, from Mago, a short form of a compound name formed with maht ‘strength’, ‘power’ as the first element.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of macon Families in the US in 1920
Number of macon families
 45-88
 16-44
 1-15
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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