Etymology

McCarney

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

Irish Mac Cearnaigh
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromMac Cearnaigh“son of Cearnach”
  2. English todayMcCarney

Anglicized form of Northern Irish Mac Cearnaigh (“son of Cearnach”), from cearnach (“victorious, triumphant”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.