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The mcevoy Surname

mcevoy Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (Ulster) and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhuidhe ‘son of the yellow-haired lad’.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhíodhbhuidhe, a patronymic, originally (the genitive has been altered) from fíodhbhadhach ‘woodman’. In east Ulster this surname has sometimes been used in place of McVeigh.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The mcevoy name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the mcevoy family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of mcevoy Families in the US in 1920
Number of mcevoy families
 75-148
 26-74		 1-25
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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