Etymology

McEvoy

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Scottish Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhuidhe ← Irish Mac Fhíodhbhuidhe
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromMac Fhíodhbhuidhe
  2. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromMac Giolla Bhuidhe“son of the yellow-haired lad”
  3. English todayMcEvoy

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhuidhe (“son of the yellow-haired lad”) and Irish Mac Fhíodhbhuidhe, a patronymic originally from fíodhbhadhach (“woodman”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.