Last name: MCLAUGHLIN

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MCLAUGHLIN : This last name is indexed 94,736 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

MCLAUGHLIN : Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lochlainn ‘son of the Norseman’ from the personal name Lochlann ‘stranger Norseman’ from a term denoting Scandinavia (possibly ‘land of lakes/fjords’). This was a ruling family in Ulster. See also Laughlin and compare the Scottish form McLachlan.

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