McCue Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

McCue is an established spelling of the Irish surname McHugh. Its meaning, shared with McHugh, is “Son of Aodh ("fire")”.

How the spelling arose

Records show McCue as one of the forms McHugh took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes MacHugh and Hughes.

Arms associated with the name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named McCue, so the heraldry linked to McHugh is a starting point, not an automatic right.

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