Etymology

McCoskrie

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Irish Mac Coscraigh
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  1. Irish · derived fromMac Coscraigh“son of Coscrach”
  2. English todayMcCoskrie

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Coscraigh (“son of Coscrach”), a byname from coscrach (“victorious, triumphant”). Compare Cosgrove.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.