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The mcknight Surname

mcknight Name Meaning and History

  1. (Ulster) Anglicized form of Scottish Mac Neachtain, which is usually Anglicized as McNaughton.
  2. part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the horseman (Gaelic ridire)’.

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

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

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Distribution of mcknight Families in the US in 1920
Number of mcknight families
 142-282
 48-141		 1-47
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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