Mccabe

Meaning of Mccabe

Mccabe is a masculine given name historically rooted in the Gaelic patronymic Mac Cába—literally “son of Cába”—which entered Anglophone usage through medieval Irish emigration and subsequent English lexical assimilation. The name’s etymology remains contested: some onomastic scholars trace it to the Old Norse kappi, denoting “champion” or “warrior,” while others argue for an indigenous Gaelic origin, with the personal name Cába retaining an etymologically obscure status. Its adoption as a first name in the United States is decidedly uncommon; Social Security Administration records from 1995 to 2016 register annual occurrences of five to ten newborns, yielding rank positions between 787 and 923. Pronounced muh-KAYB (/məˈkeɪb/), Mccabe conveys both a sense of ancestral lineage and an undercurrent of martial distinction, aligning with contemporary Anglo-American preferences for names that evoke historical depth and individual distinctiveness.

Pronunciation

• Pronunced as muh-KAYB (/məˈkeɪb/)

• Macaulay
• Mccade
• Mcclain
• Mccrae
• Mcallister