Last name: MCKNIGHT
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MCKNIGHT : This last name is indexed 34,651 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MCKNIGHT : 1: Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the horseman (Gaelic ridire)’ formerly Anglicized McRuddery.2: Scottish (Dumfriesshire and Galloway) and Irish (Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Neachtain which is usually Anglicized as McNaughton.
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