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
Surname as well as "FitzWilliam" or "Fitzwilliam". Irish surnames are the oldest surnames in Europe. The common prefixes "Ó" and "Mac" can be spelled with the prefix as a separate word, yielding "Ó Briain" or "Mac Millan" as well as the anglicized "O'Brien" and "MacMillan" or "Macmillan". In the United States, 1,712 surnames cover 50% of the population, and about 1% of the population has the surname Smith, which is also the most frequent English name and an occupational name ("metal worker"), a contraction, for instance, of blacksmith or other metalsmiths. Several American surnames are a result of corruptions or phonetic