Etymology

McCrum

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Scottish Gaelic Mac Cruim
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromMac Cruim“son of the cripple”
  2. English todayMcCrum

Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Cruim (“son of the cripple”), from crom (“bent, twisted”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.