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The mccoy Surname

mccoy Name Meaning and History

Irish (Limerick): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha ‘son of Aodh’, an ancient personal name meaning ‘fire’, originally the name of a pagan god. Thus it has the same origin as McGee, McKay and McKee.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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mccoy Family Facts

Distribution of mccoy Families in the US in 1920
Number of mccoy families
 432-862
 145-431		 1-144
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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