Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macháin ‘descendant
of Machán’, which Woulfe suggests is a variant of
Mochán, a diminutive of moch ‘early’, itself a short
form of a name formed with this element, of which there are several,
and a variant of Mohan of Kilmacduagh in County Galway.
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