McCown McCown McCown is a Gaelic-language surname with several possible etymological origins. There are several possible etymologies for the McCown surname. McCown and its multitude of spelling variants could originate from anglicised versions of the Gaelic names "Mac Eòghain", "Mac Eòin" or "Mac Còmhghan". McCown is a patronymic surname, the Gaelic "Mac" (or "Mc") meaning ""son of"" in English. Mac Eoghain is the most likely etymological origin for the surname McCown. The Gaelic name "Eòghan" translates into modern day English as Ewen or "Owen". The prefix of "Eo" in "Eoghan", is often pronounced "yew". This has caused many to translate Eoghan
Mac and Mc together example has been taken as representative of a possible paradigm. A book on filing rules from 1918 gives an example showing Mc and M' treated as abbreviations, i.e. for Mac, and ordered as if in the expanded version; and a similar book from 1922 makes the rule one of a number that apply also to St. (Saint) and Mrs. (Mistress). A 1938 book that is a comparative study of cataloguing in various British libraries regarded Mac + Mc + M' sorting as an example of achieved "standardisation" in alphabetisation. It gave further examples where, it argued, such standardisation would be