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Macauley - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Macauley

[ 3 syll. ma-cau-ley, mac-aul-ey ] The boy name Macauley is pronounced MahKAOLiy KEY. Macauley is of Scottish Gaelic origin and it is predominantly used in the English language. The name's meaning is 'the son of Olaf (an ancestral relic)'. Variations of Macauley include the English names Macalay, Macawlay, and Maccauley.

Macauley is an infrequently used baby name for boys. It is not ranked within the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Macauley include the English Macalay, the English Maccauley, the Catalan Micolau, the Welsh Mihangel, the Ukrainian Mikhailo, the Polish Mikolai, the Polish Mikolaj, the Hebrew Mishael, the English Macawlay, the Portuguese Maximiliao, the English Maximillia, the English and Scottish Maxwell, the Welsh Meical, the Portuguese Micael, the English Mical, the Czech, English, German, and Yiddish Michael, the Greek and Russian Michail, the Czech and Polish Michal, the English Michale, and the English and Scottish Micheal.

KEY: Pronunciation for Macauley: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"


 
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