Etymology

McKay

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Irish Mac Aodha ← Scottish Gaelic MacAoidh
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromMacAoidh
  2. Irish · borrowed fromMac Aodha
  3. English todayMcKay

From Irish Mac Aodha and Scottish Gaelic MacAoidh (literally “son of Aodh”). Related to McCoy and McGee.

Words from the same roots

IrishMac Aodha all →

McGeeMcKee

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.