English (also common in Wales): patronymic from the Middle
English and Anglo-Norman French personal name Hugh.Welsh:
variant of Howells.Irish and Scottish: variant
Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Aodha (see McCoy).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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