Etymology

McPhillips

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Scottish Gaelic Mac Philib
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromMac Philib“son of Philip”
  2. English todayMcPhillips

Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Philib (“son of Philip”); compare McKillip.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.