403 Global MCGEEVER Family Members

MCGEEVER Family History

This interesting surname is a Donegal variant of "Mac Ivor" or " MacIver", itself found in Tyrone, which is a synonym of "MacKeever", which is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic "Mac Iomhair", from "Mac", meaning son of, and either the Norse personal name "Ivaar" or the indigenous Irish forename "Eimhear". This name was mainly found in Oriel, an ancient Gaelic territory in Ireland, comprising the counties of Armagh, Monaghan and parts of south Down, Louth and Fermanagh. Certain O hIomhair (O - "male descendants of") families who forsook the Irish name, became part of the ascendancy and Anglicized their name as Ivers and Howard.