Etymology

McCart

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

Irish Mac Airt
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromMac Airt“son of Art”
  2. English todayMcCart

Anglicized form of Northern Irish Mac Airt (“son of Art”), a byname from art (“bear”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.