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mclean Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Eathain, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘servant of (Saint) John’. The family bearing this name were chieftains in several islands of the Inner Hebrides.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Eóin, cognate with 1, from a different Gaelic form of Johannes (John). Compare McGlone.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mclean Families in the US in 1920
Number of mclean families
 309-615
 104-308		 1-103
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Threads: 911 - Messages: 1912
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McLean surname in MI BRENT POGORESKI 21
Norman Mckenzie Radams6204 0
MacDonald/Anderson Radams6204 0
Douglas and Frances Mclean Radams6204 0
Roy Alistair McLean fiona88_1 0
John McLean, Sr., b. SCT, d. abt. 1860 SCT EDeWhitt 1
Hiram A McLean 1801 NC Descendants snbmclean 2
McLean brothers m Henderson sisters ~1754. snbmclean 0
Maclean relatives. neilmclean5 0
got no clue, would like help starting Robert Todd McLean 16
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