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Both A Dictionary of English Place Names by A.D. Mills, and A Dictionary of Surnames by Hanks & Hodges, give Old English Macca as the source of the first syllable in the English place name and surname Mackworth. However, the original meaning of Macca is unknown. And we now know that Macca is NOT the name behind Maxwell, where the first syllable is from Makkr, a short form of Magnus from an Old Norse form found in southern Scotland.