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
Irish people used. While both "Mac" and "Ó'" prefixes are Gaelic in origin, "Mac" is more common in Scotland and in Ulster than in the rest of Ireland; furthermore, "Ó" is far less common in Scotland than it is in Ireland. The proper surname for a woman in Irish uses the feminine prefix nic (meaning daughter) in place of mac. Thus a boy may be called Mac Domhnaill whereas his sister would be called Nic Dhomhnaill or Ní Dhomhnaill – the insertion of 'h' follows the female prefix in the case of most consonants (bar H, L, N, R, & T). A