Etymology

McGuigan

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Scottish Gaelic Mac Uiginn
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromMac Uiginn“son of the viking”
  2. English todayMcGuigan

Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Uiginn (“son of the viking”), from uiging (“Viking; pirate”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.