McCormick (surname) the deaths of several prominent MacCormicks of County Fermanagh; the last of these died in 1431. Another possible derivation of the name is that it comes from the gaelic "Mac Cormaic" which comes from "corb" and "mac" meaning "Ravenson". Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames frequently have the prefix Mac or Mc. When these surnames were originally developed, they were formed by adding the Gaelic word, mac, which means son of, to the name of the original bearer's father, or to the father's trade. Patrick C. McCormick 1979-1983 Cobra Gunship Pilot 1/17th 82nd Airborne McCormick (surname) McCormick is a family name
Mac and Mc together A 2007 book in its tenth edition states that "most library catalogs" sort Mac and Mc names as if spelled M-a-c. Among the guides which generally recommend separating Mac and Mc so that names will be sorted as they are spelled are ISO 999, The Chicago Manual of Style, "Butcher's Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors and Proofreaders", "The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage", and "The SBL Handbook of Style". Mac and Mc together A convention of sorting names with the Scottish and Irish patronymic prefixes Mac and Mc together persists in library science and archival