McEachern (surname)
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McEachern and MacEachern are Irish
and Scottish
surname
s. The names are Anglicised forms of the Gaelic Mac Eichthigheirn, meaning "son of Eichthighearn". The personal name Eichthighearn is composed of two elements. The first is each, meaning "horse
"; the second is tighearna, meaning "lord". The surnames MacEachern and McEachern can be represented in Scottish Gaelic by MacEachairn, and MacEacharna.
MacEachern
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
and Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
s. The names are Anglicised forms of the Gaelic Mac Eichthigheirn, meaning "son of Eichthighearn". The personal name Eichthighearn is composed of two elements. The first is each, meaning "horse
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
"; the second is tighearna, meaning "lord". The surnames MacEachern and McEachern can be represented in Scottish Gaelic by MacEachairn, and MacEacharna.
People with the surnames
McEachern- Allan McEachernAllan McEachernAllan McEachern, BA, LL.B, LL.D was a Canadian lawyer, a judge, and a Chancellor of the University of British Columbia.-Career:...
- (1926–2008) - Canadian - lawyer and judge - Chase McEachernChase McEachernChase McEachern was a boy from Barrie, Ontario, Canada, who campaigned to have it mandatory that heart defibrillators be made available at schools and hockey arenas. - Death :Unfortunately, on Feb...
- Canadian - campaigner for mandatory heart defibrillators - Lon McEachernLon McEachernLon McEachern is an American sports broadcaster, who is most known for his hand-by-hand commentary on The World Series of Poker. McEachern, who graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in communications, is also the host of Fox network's On the Pole. He has...
- American - poker analyst - Murray McEachernMurray McEachernMurray McEachern was a Canadian jazz trombonist and alto saxophonist born in Toronto, perhaps best-known for having played trombone for Benny Goodman from 1936-1937...
- (1915–1982) - Canadian - jazz trombonist and alto saxophonist - Shawn McEachernShawn McEachernShawn K. McEachern is an American ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. He is the current head boys' varsity ice hockey coach at The Rivers School, an independent 6–12 school in Weston, Massachusetts....
- (born 1969) - American - hockey player and coach - Malcolm McEachernMalcolm McEachernWalter Malcom Neil McEachern was a noted Australian bass singer who enjoyed a successful career in the United Kingdom, both as a concert soloist and as one half of the comic musical duo Flotsam and Jetsam....
- (1883 – 1945) - Australian - noted bass singer
MacEachern
- David MacEachernDavid MacEachernDavid "Dave" MacEachern is a Canadian bobsledder who competed in the 1990s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the two-man event at Nagano in 1998...
- (born 1967) - Canadian - bobsledder - Shane MacEachernShane MacEachernShane MacEachern is a retired ice hockey centre. He played one game with the St. Louis Blues in the 1987–88 season.-External links:...
- (born 1967) - Canadian - ice hockey player