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
Mac and Mc together 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 practice. An example is from the Archives at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. It is also applied in areas such as voter registration, where Mac and Mc names may be sorted together in a listing. Technically this is a convention in collation. On the other hand, ASCII is a computer standard and its corresponding sorting is gradually replacing this exception to ordinary alphabetisation. Rules once used for filing have been