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I don't know about your first name, but your last name is Scottish or Irish. It is an anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Gille Eathain, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘servant of (Saint) John’. The family bearing this name were chieftains in several islands of the Inner Hebrides. In Irish it is an anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Eóin, from a different Gaelic form of Johannes (John).
I don't know about your first name, but your last name is Scottish or Irish. It is an anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Gille Eathain, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘servant of (Saint) John’. The family bearing this name were chieftains in several islands of the Inner Hebrides. In Irish it is an anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Eóin, from a different Gaelic form of Johannes (John).
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