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.

People

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Dubhghall mac Suibhne, 13th-century Argyllian magnate

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Aodán Mac Suibhne, 21st-century hurling referee
Aodh Mac Suibhne, 16th-century Irish gallowglass
Domnall na Madhmann Mac Suibhne, 15th-century Irish gallowglass
Eóin Mac Suibhne, 14th-century Scottish nobleman
Micheál Mac Suibhne, 18th-century poet
Murchadh Mac Suibhne, 13th-century Argyllian magnate
Suibhne MacAnrahan, brother to the High King of Ireland, who built Castle Sween in the late 11th century

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Irish-language masculine surnames
Surnames of Irish origin
Surnames of Scottish origin