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mckay Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha ‘son of Aodh’, an ancient personal name meaning ‘fire’. Etymologically, this is the same name as McCoy.

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

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

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Distribution of mckay Families in the US in 1920
Number of mckay families
 218-434
 73-217		 1-72
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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