Scottish and northern Irish: reduced form of Mac Clingan, an
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gilla Fhinnéin ‘son of the
servant of (Saint) Finnian’, also Anglicized as Mac Alingen.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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