Is the last name McGee irish?

Question

my last name is McGee and i'm not totally sure that it's irish or not. my step-dad jokes and says its pollish but i dont know. so please help me!!!

Answer 1

Ancestry.com lists the following places of origin for McGee for the Port Authority of New York:

Ireland 904

England 169

Great Britain 157

Scotland 118

Irish Free State  9

Ireland: Great Britain 7

The McGee Surname DNA Project shows a United Kingdom census survey map that notes that in 1881 more McGees were living in Lanarkshire, Scotland, than any other location.  

McGee is apparently a surname used by the Scots and Scots-Irish (or Ulster-Scots), who, of course, emigrated from Scotland to Northern Ireland, as well as by the Irish.  All of which doesn't narrow down your search one bit.  In other words, you'll have to directly trace your own family tree to find out exactly where your McGees originated.

Answer 2

scottish more than likely, i know a few scots with that surname but no irish people

Answer 3

I think it's scottish. I dunno.

Answer 4

I think its Scottish.

I'm Irish, and McGee does not sound Irish to me..

Answer 5

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,

McGee Name Meaning and History

Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha ‘son of Aodh’ (see McCoy).

hope this helps.

Answer 6

It's originally a Gaelic name. Mac Aoidh means son of Aodh, there were both Irish and Scottish clans with that name, and there have been a lot of different anglicisations of it, such as McCoy, Keyes, Kee, Magee, Mackey, McGee, McKee, Hughes, MacHugh etc., in both countries.

There are now both Irish and Scottish McGees so you would have to know more detail about your ancestry to say which you come from - but it's definitely either Irish or Highland Scottish.

Kendra, your genes don't make you irish. Knowing things like that McGee/Magee is an Irish surname is waht every real Irish person is able to do.