Mac Suibhne Mac Suibhne The Gaelic surname Mac Suibhne is a patronymic form of "Suibhne" and means "son of "Suibhne"". The personal name "Suibhne" means "pleasant". Anglicised forms of "Mac Suibhne" include: "McSeveney", "McSeveny", "McSween", "McSweeney", "McSweeny", "McSwiney", "Sweaney", "Sween", "Sweeney", "Sweenie", "Sweeny", "Sweney", "Swiney", "Swinney", A lenited variant form of "Mac Suibhne" is "Mac Shuibhne". Anglicised forms of the latter Gaelic name include: (possibly) "Mawhinney", "McQueen", "McQueeney", "McQueenie", (possibly) "McWhinney", "Queen", "Queeney", "Wheen". One particular family that has borne the surname "Mac Suibhne" is Clann Suibhne. Members of this Scottish family settled in Ulster as gallowglass warriors in the Middle Ages.
Leavy surname Leavy may appear prefixed with the Gaelic language "Mac" or even "Mc", "MacA" and "MacE". Notable people with the surname include: Leavy Leavy (Lay-Vee) is a Scottish surname. It arose from the Scots slurring of the surname of the Irish MacDunleavy (dynasty) (Gaelic language MacDuinnshléibhe) royals, exiled in the still Celts Highlands of Scotland after the 12th century English conquest of the last remnants of the Dunleavy’s, thereto, though reduced, still sovereign Irish state in southeastern Ulster, that is the (Ulaidh (province). The Dunleavy/MacNulty (Gaelic language Mac an Ultaigh, for an individual of the Ulaidh tribe) were the last