The mchale Surname
mchale Name Meaning and History
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile, a patronymic from the byname Céile ‘companion’. This was the surname of a Mayo family, tenants of church lands.
- from Mac Haol ‘son of Haol’, a Gaelicized form of Howell which was adopted by a Welsh family of this name who settled in County Mayo.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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