Etymology

McCutcheon

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic Mac Uisdein ← Old French Huchon
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromHuchon
  2. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromMac Uisdein“son of Uisdean”
  3. English todayMcCutcheon

Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Uisdein (“son of Uisdean”), a Gaelicized form of Old French Huchon, a hypocoristic form of Hughe (“Hugh”).

Words from the same roots

Scottish GaelicMac Uisdein all →

McQuiston

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.