First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Name origin: Scottish
Name meaning: Son of righteousness
Name origin: Irish
Name meaning: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uilcín ‘son of Uilcín’, a diminutive of Ulick, itself a diminutive of William.