Etymology

McMeekin

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Scottish Gaelic Mac Miadhacháin
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromMac Miadhacháin“son of Miadhachán”
  2. English todayMcMeekin

Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Miadhacháin (“son of Miadhachán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of miadhach (“honorable”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.