Last name: MCCOY
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MCCOY : This last name is indexed 106,469 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MCCOY : Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aoidh ‘son of Aodh’ an old personal name meaning ‘fire’ originally the name of a pagan god. Thus it has the same origin as McGee McKay and McKee. It has sometimes been Anglicized as Hughes.
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