The mcclay Surname
mcclay Name Meaning and History
Scottish and northern Irish: probably an Anglicized form of
Scottish Gaelic Mac an Léigh ‘son of the physician’, Irish
Mac an Leagha (Antrim).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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