247: mc, mac, dotter, warraq (papermaker) Aug 12, 2015

Names usually have roots somewhere, except for a select few which are just completely made up. 'Mc' and 'Mac' as a prefix both mean "son of...' and Scandinavian names often end in 'son' or 'dotter'. Some names were previously occupational such as 'Smith', or a common Arabic last name, "Warraq", which means 'papermaker', because during the European dark ages, when most books were composed of parchment, papyrus, or other materials, the far-advanced Middle East needed paper for all of its many libraries and bookstores.