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The mcguire Surname

mcguire Name Meaning and History

Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Uidhir ‘son of Odhar’, a byname meaning ‘sallow’. This was the name of the ruling family of Fermanagh from the 13th–17th centuries.

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

Distribution of mcguire Families in the US in 1920
Number of mcguire families
 449-895
 150-448		 1-149
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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