McCormick (surname)

McCormick is a family name that originated in Ireland, Munster[2] and later Scotland from the Irish given name. Spelling variations: Cormack, MacCormack, McCormack, McCormick, MacCormick, Carmack, Cormac, Cormach, Cormich and Cormiche. It comes from the first name of the original bearer. A person whose father was named Cormac would identify as Mc (i.e. "son of") Cormac; the combination was continued as the family name by subsequent generations.

McCormick
Origin
Meaning"son of Cormac'"
Region of originIreland
Other names
Variant form(s)Cormack, MacCormack, McCormack, McCormick, MacCormick, Cormac, Cormach, Cormich, Cormiche , Cormack
[1]

Cormac is translated literally as "Charioteer, Warrior" in old Irish. The name was a very popular choice of names by parents in medieval times: this was due to the influences of the Saint of the same name. Saint Cormac Cormac mac Cuilennáin was the first Bishop of Cashel, an important diocese in the south of Ireland. Cashel was also the King of Munster and responsible for a famous book of Psalms, the Cashel Psalter, he died in battle in AD 908. See also earlier Irish saint Cormac of Armagh. In those days the McCormack was the name of a powerful Sept (Clan or Family) in the county of Longford, Cormac mac Airt, a semi-historical Irish high king who ruled from Tara ca. 227–266 AD. Cormac, son of Cabhsan, was the first chieftain to be called Cormack, and, of course, MacCormack came later as a direct descendant, Mac or Mc signifying the 'son of'.


In 1576, 1598 and 1600, MacCormicks are recorded as leading gentry in County Cork[3] and one, of Muskerry, was influential enough to raise a large force to assist Desmond in the Elizabethan wars. The Annals of the Four Masters record 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".[4]

Mac, Mc prefix

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.

Business

Education
  • Bruce H. McCormick (1928–2007), US professor of computer scientist at Texas A&M University
  • Charles T. McCormick (1889–1963), US professor of law and Dean at The University of Texas, the University of North Carolina, and Northwestern University
  • John McCormick (b. 1954), professor of Political Science at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  • Marie McCormick, the Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Richard L. McCormick (b. 1947), US professor and university administrator at Rutgers University and the University of Washington
  • Samuel McCormick (1858–1928), US professor and administrator of the University of Pittsburgh

Entertainment
  • Carolyn McCormick (b. 1959), US film and television actress
  • F. J. McCormick (1889–1947), Irish theater and film actor
  • Gayle McCormick (1948–2016), American singer, member of the band Smith
  • Haley McCormick (bc. 1985), American television and film actress
  • Jill McCormick (b. 1977), US fashion model
  • Larry McCormick (1933–2004), US television personality
  • Lisa McCormick (f. 1990–2000s), US singer and songwriter
  • Malcolm McCormick (1992–2018), birth name of Mac Miller, American rapper and singer
  • Matt McCormick (f. 1990–2000s), US film producer and director
  • Maureen McCormick (b. 1956), US television and film actress
  • Megan McCormick (b. 1973), US television personality
  • Pat McCormick, US film actor and screenwriter
  • Pat McCormick (f. 1950-1980s), US television personality
  • Peter Dodds McCormick (1834?–1916), Australian songwriter, composer of Australian anthem
  • Robert "Mack" McCormick (1930–2015), US musicologist and folklorist
  • Sierra McCormick (b. 1997), US film actress

Fiction

Law

Literature
  • Alexander McCormick, Jr. (1897–1918), US pilot in World War I
  • Robert McCormick (explorer) (1800–1890), British Royal Navy surgeon, explorer and naturalist
  • Lynde D. McCormick (1895–1956), Four-Star Admiral, Commander in Chief of the United States Atlantic Fleet, First supreme allied commander of all NATO forces in the Atlantic

Politics

Sports

Other
gollark: Well, they didn't have that.
gollark: I was going to say that "magic is magic mostly because we can't really do it in reality", but actually there is fiction where magic does approximately the same things as what modern tech does but with a slightly different aesthetic.
gollark: I'm sure there are others, I just can't immediately think of any.
gollark: Um. I have never actually *read* it but apparently Robert Jackson Bennet's *Foundryside* has a programmingish magic system?
gollark: I'm sure this has been done, depending on how strictly you define it.

See also

References
  1. "Surname Database: McCormick Last Name Origin". The Internet Surname Database.
  2. https://www.houseofnames.com/mccormack-family-crest
  3. Robert Bell, Book of Ulster Surnames (Blackstaff Press/October 1989 ISBN 0-85640-416-0
  4. "Mccormick Name Meaning & Mccormick Family History at Ancestry.com". www.ancestry.com.
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