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mcgivern Name Meaning and History

Northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uidhrín, a patronymic from a personal name which is from a diminutive of odhar ‘dun’. This surname is also found in Galloway in Scotland, where it is of Irish origin.

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Distribution of mcgivern Families in the US in 1920
Number of mcgivern families
 12-21
 5-11
 1-4
 0
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