Smith (surname) usage has passed into "Smitty" being used as a surname itself. Other languages with different words for the occupation of "smith" or "blacksmith" also produced surnames based on that root. Words derived from the Latin term for smith (literally "one who works with iron"), such as the Italian words "fabbro" and "ferraio", are the root of last names common in several parts of Europe. In Ireland and Scotland, the word for smith, "gobha", is found in the surname "MacGouren"/"MacGouran"/"MacGowan"/"McGowan". This surname is an Anglicised form of "Mac a' Ghobhainn" (Scottish Gaelic), "Mac Gabhann" (Irish), meaning "son of the smith". In
McLoughlin McLoughlin McLoughlin is one of nearly two dozen Anglicisms for three Gaelic-Irish surnames: Mac/Nic Lochlainn (most commonly Anglicised "McLaughlin"), Ó/Ni Máoilsheáchlainn (usually "McLoughlin" or "M'Loughlin"), and Mac/Nic Lochnaigh (usually rendered Loughney but occasionally "McLoughlin" or "MacLoughlin"). "Mac" and "Ó" are masculine prefixes; "Ni/Nic" is feminine. Mac is rendered into English as "Mac", "Mc" and "M"'. Ó is rendered "O' ". The feminine prefix is rendered into English according to its masculine counterpart (e.g. Nic na Mhara > McNamara, Ni hEaghra > O'Hara). They are used with names that originated as patronymics. Occasionally, the prefix "Mael/Maol" is Anglicised "Mac/Mc". The surname