Mcavinue Family History
Mcavinue Name Meaning
from Mac Aibhne ‘son of Aibhne’ a personal name of unknown etymology much used among the O'Cahans in the North of Ireland. The original stress was on the first syllable of Aibhne but has sometimes now moved to the syllable anglicized as -vin- or -ven- which was once merely a glide vowel unrecognized in the Irish spelling.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016