The maxey Surname
maxey Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, so named from the genitive case of the northern English personal name Mack + Old English eg ‘island’, ‘low-lying land’.
- Irish: variant of Mackesy, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macasa ‘descendant of Macus’, a personal name which is probably a form of Magnus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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