English Explanatory Dictionary

McEvoy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

McEvoy McEvoys McAvoy

Etymology

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhuidhe (“son of the yellow-haired lad”) and Irish Mac Fhíodhbhuidhe, a patronymic originally from fíodhbhadhach (“woodman”).

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