Etymology

McCahill

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

Irish Mac Cathail
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromMac Cathail“son of Cathal”
  2. English todayMcCahill

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Cathail (“son of Cathal”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.