(Ulster) Anglicized form of Scottish Mac
Neachtain, which is usually Anglicized as McNaughton.part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the
horseman (Gaelic ridire)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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