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The mclean Surname

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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