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Presidents' Kids: Irvin Mcdowell Garfield
Irvin

Name origin: Hungarian

Name meaning: Variation of Irving

 
Mcdowell

Name origin: Scottish and Irish

Name meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhghaill ‘son of Dubhghall’, a byname meaning ‘dark stranger’, used among the Gaels to distinguish the darker-haired Danes from fair-haired Norwegians. According to MacLysaght, this is the Irish form of the name of the Scottish clan McDougall, borne by a branch which went to Ireland from the Hebrides as mercenaries. However, Black shows that both forms were current in Scotland.

 
Garfield

Name origin: English

Name meaning: Promontory

 
 
 
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