Etymology

McCormick

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

gd,ga Mac Cormaic ← Old Irish Cormac
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  1. Old Irish · derived fromCormac
  2. gd,ga · borrowed fromMac Cormaic
  3. English todayMcCormick

From Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Cormaic (literally “son of Cormac”), from Old Irish Cormac, Corbmac, which is itself from corb (“chariot”) + mac (“son”). The double patronymic "arose when the meaning of Cormac began to be lost sight of". Many books of baby names also connect the name to an Irish word for "raven".

Words from the same roots

Old IrishCormac all →

CormacCormickCormag

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.