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MacDonald, Macdonald, and McDonald are Anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic name ''MacDhòmhnaill'', which in modern Gaelic is approximated as McConnell. It is a patronym where ''Mac'' means "son" and ''Dhòmhnaill'' means "of Dòmhnall". The personal name ''Dòmhnall'' is composed of the elements ''domno'' "world" and ''val'' "might", "rule".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=McDonald Name Meaning and History )〕 According to Alex Woolf, the Gaelic personal name is probably a borrowing from the British ''Dyfnwal''. In the context of Scottish clans, the various forms of the name refer to one of the largest clans, Clan Donald. ==Frequency and distribution== In Scottish surname data, no distinction is made between, for instance, "Macdonald" and "MacDonald". According to this data, the following frequency information can be collated: ;Table References〔%freq = percentage of the sample population sharing a particular surname.〕〔http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files/01surnames_tablea3a.pdf〕〔http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files/01surnames_tablea4.pdf Note: Quote from GROScotSurnames: "Note that McDonald is shown as more common than MacDonald in 1901, although given the uncertainties surrounding the spelling of these names it would seem wrong to regard this as significant."〕〔http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files/01surnames_tablea3b.pdf〕 Frequency data from England of 1891 shows a concentration of families bearing the "Macdonald" surname in Lancashire and Yorkshire with a lower frequency in the northernmost counties, but overall widespread distribution throughout the country.〔(macdonald Families Living in England and Wales in 1891 - Ancestry.com )〕 "McDonald" shares the same pattern of distribution.〔(mcdonald Families Living in England and Wales in 1891 - Ancestry.com )〕 Looking at contemporaneous data from the United States, coast-to-coast distribution of both "Macdonald" and "McDonald" appears in 1880.〔(mcdonald Family History Facts 1880 - Ancestry.com )〕〔(macdonald Family History Facts 1880 - Ancestry.com )〕 Looking back to 1840 in the United States, the prevalence of "McDonald" is far greater than that of "Macdonald", with concentration in the Ohio-Pennsylvania-New York corridor.〔(mcdonald Family History Facts 1840 - Ancestry.com )〕〔(macdonald Family History Facts 1840 - Ancestry.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Macdonald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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