English Explanatory Dictionary

McKay

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.
  3. A former township in eastern Ontario, Canada, merged into Laurentian Hills municipality in 2000.

Pronunciation

/məˈkeɪ/

Word forms

McKay MacKay

Etymology

From Irish Mac Aodha and Scottish Gaelic MacAoidh (literally “son of Aodh”). Related to McCoy and McGee.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary