Last name: MCGILL
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MCGILL : This last name is indexed 52,908 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MCGILL : 1: Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Ghoill ‘son of the stranger (or lowlander)’ (see Gall 1).2: Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac (an) G(h)iolla (Irish) or Mac (an) G(h)ille (Scottish) ‘son of the lad’ (i.e. ‘servant’) or a short form of a personal name formed by attaching this element to the name of a saint in the sense ‘devotee’.
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