as a Last Name
- 3,504
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Mcelwain
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Bheathain ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Beathan’, a personal name representing a diminutive of beatha ‘life’.
| 9,270th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,504
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Mcelwain per capita
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