Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form (in which the Gaelic
patronymic prefix Mac has been translated into the English
patronymic suffix -son), of Gaelic Mac Mhurchaidh, a
patronymic from the personal name Murchadh, composed of the
elements muir ‘sea’ + cath ‘battle’, hence ‘sea
warrior’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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