Släkthistoria för Mcanaw
Mcanaw Vad efternamn betyder
from Mac Con Shnámha from the personal name Cú Shnámha meaning 'hound of swimming'. This was a chieftain family in Leitrim sometimes anglicized as Ford (from translation of the phonetically similar Mac an Átha 'son of the ford') or McAdam Irish Mac Adhaimh. variants in final -ea or -ee possibly from Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith see McKenna and McKinney.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
