Etymology

McAteer

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Irish Mac an tSaoir
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromMac an tSaoir“son of the craftsman”
  2. English todayMcAteer

Anglicized form of Northern Irish Mac an tSaoir (“son of the craftsman”), from saor (“craftsman”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.