McCoskrie

English

Etymology

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Coscraigh (“son of Coscrach”), a byname from coscrach (“victorious, triumphant”). Compare Cosgrove.

Proper noun

McCoskrie (plural McCoskries)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, McCoskrie is the 399091^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 38 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “McCoskrie”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 548.
• Forebears