McEachin and MacEachin, are of Scottish 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. They are Anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic MacEachainn

MacEachainn

MacEachainn is a masculine surname in Scottish Gaelic. The name translates into English as "son of Eachann". The feminine form of the name is NicEachainn, which translates to "daughter of the son of Eachann". These surnames originated as a patronyms, however they no longer refer to the actual name...

, which means "son of Eachann

Eachann

Eachann is a masculine given name in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages. The early form of the name was Eachdonn. The name is compose of two elements; the first element is each, meaning "horse". The second element is donn, which has been given two different meanings. One proposed meaning is...

". The Scottish Gaelic given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 Eachann

Eachann

Eachann is a masculine given name in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages. The early form of the name was Eachdonn. The name is compose of two elements; the first element is each, meaning "horse". The second element is donn, which has been given two different meanings. One proposed meaning is...

is composed of two elements. The first element 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 element is donn, which has been given two different meanings. One proposed meaning is "brown"; the other is "lord".

People

• A. Donald McEachin - (born 1961) - German born, American - politician.
• James McEachin
  James McEachin
  James McEachin is an American actor, award-winning author, and known for his many character roles such as portraying police Lieutenant Brock in several Perry Mason television movies.-Military career:...
  
  - (born 1930) - American - actor.