From Mac Uaid, ‘son of Wat’ — a Monaghan name built on a Norman first name.
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Gaelic Origin · Root meaning ‘son of Walter’
McQuade renders Mac Uaid, ‘son of Uaid’ — Uaid being the Irish form of Wat, itself the everyday short form of the Norman name Walter. It is a Monaghan name above all, and a good example of a Gaelic patronymic built around a first name that had arrived with the Normans.
A Norman Christian name inside a Gaelic surname — the clearest kind of proof that the two peoples had stopped being separate.
Irish form: Mac Uaid
