The McClosky Last Name

McClosky is a branch of the McCloskey name tree. At root, the name means “The son of Bloscadh”. Without the “e” of McCloskey, McClosky is a simpler written form of the same name. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

349 Americans were listed as McClosky in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named McClosky, so the heraldry linked to McCloskey is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the McClosky family name pack.