Mackey
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Frequency: (10550)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, this is Irish, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macdha ‘descendant of Macdha’, a personal name meaning ‘virile’, ‘manly’.
2. With the stress on the second syllable, it is a variant of Scottish and Irish McKay.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
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