Mccracken Family History
Mccracken Name Meaning
Irish (northern) and Scottish (Galloway): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Reachtain a variant of Mac Neachtain (see McNaughton ) with the replacement of n by r in the cluster cn that is characteristic of Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic. The -ck- in the spelling here is a result of the Scottish Gaelic pronunciation of cht.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022