Etymology

McMackin

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Scottish Gaelic Mac Maicín
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromMac Maicín“son of the young man”
  2. English todayMcMackin

Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Maicín (“son of the young man”), from a diminutive of mac (“son”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.