Mac Suibhne

The Gaelic surname Mac Suibhne is a patronymic form of Suibhne and means "son of Suibhne". The personal name Suibhne means "pleasant".

Anglicised forms of Mac Suibhne include: McSeveney, McSeveny, McSween, McSweeney, McSweeny, McSwiney, Sweaney, Sween, Sweeney, Sweenie, Sweeny, Sweney, Swiney, Swinney, A lenited variant form of Mac Suibhne is Mac Shuibhne. Anglicised forms of the latter Gaelic name include: (possibly) Mawhinney, McQueen, McQueeney, McQueenie, (possibly) McWhinney, Queen, Queeney, Wheen.

One particular family that has borne the surname Mac Suibhne is Clann Suibhne. Members of this Scottish family settled in Ulster as gallowglass warriors in the Middle Ages.

mac Suibhne

 * Dubhghall mac Suibhne, 13th-century Argyllian magnate

Mac Suibhne

 * Aodán Mac Suibhne, 21st-century hurling referee
 * Aodh Mac Suibhne, 16th-century Irish gallowglass
 * Domnall na Madhmann Mac Suibhne, 15th-century Irish gallowglass
 * Eóin Mac Suibhne, 14th-century Scottish nobleman
 * Micheál Mac Suibhne, 18th-century poet
 * Murchadh Mac Suibhne, 13th-century Argyllian magnate
 * Suibhne MacAnrahan, brother to the High King of Ireland, who built Castle Sween in the late 11th century