McCrackin: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

The spelling McCrackin grew out of McCracken, an Irish surname with a long paper trail. The name is usually explained as “The son of Neachtan (the pure one)”.

• McCrackin ranked 35,246 in the 2010 US Census, with 639 people answering to the name.
• Related forms: MacCracken and McCrachen.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• Spelled with “i” instead of “e”, McCrackin shows how the same name was heard and written differently.

Arms associated with the name

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