Etymology

McQueen

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Old Norse sveinn ← Irish Mac Caoimhín
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromMac Caoimhín
  2. Old Norse · derived fromsveinn“boy servant”
  3. English todayMcQueen

* As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from Mac Shuibhne (“son of Suibhne”), a byname meaning "pleasant." See McSweeney. * Also as a Scottish and Irish surname, from Mac Shuain, based on Old Norse sveinn (“boy servant”). Also compare Swain, McSwan. * Also as a Scottish and Irish surname, Anglicized form of Irish Mac Caoimhín (literally “son of Kevin”). * As a French surname, Americanized from Moquin.

Words from the same roots

Old Norsesveinn all →

swainMcSwainMcSweenSweyn

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.