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mcswain Name Meaning and History

Scottish and Irish: probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Suibhne (see McSweeney) or of a Gaelic patronymic based on Old Norse sveinn ‘boy’, ‘servant’, which was also used as a personal name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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mcswain Family Facts

Distribution of mcswain Families in the US in 1920
Number of mcswain families
 76-150
 26-75		 1-25
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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