McNaught

What does the name mean?


Last Name: McNaught
  • Scottish and Irish: shortened form of McNaughton.
  • Irish: in Donegal, a variant of McKnight.

What does the name mean?


Last Name: McNaughton
  • Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Neachtain, a patronymic from the personal name Neachtan, a name of the god of water in Irish mythology. This is cognate with Latin Neptunus "Neptune", the Roman sea-god.

What does the name mean?


Last Name: McKnight
  • (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)".

Maria.

  Great great grandmother

Married Robert MILLINGTON.