Etymology

McGivern

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Irish Mac Uidhrín
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  1. Irish · derived fromMac Uidhrín“son of Uidhrín”
  2. English todayMcGivern

Anglicized form of Northern Irish Mac Uidhrín (“son of Uidhrín”), a personal name which is from a diminutive of odhar (“dun”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.