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Question: Are you a McLean or know of someone who has the same last name!?
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I went to high school with a Jim McLean, and there are 14 listings for that last name in my local telephone directory!. I live in Central Texas, but you'll need to be more specific!. The McLean family has two different points of origin, according to Ancestry!.com:

1) Scottish--Anglicized form of {Scottish-]Gaelic Mac Gille Eathain, patronymic form of of a personal name meaning "servant of Saint John"!. The family bearing this name were chieftains on several islands of the Inner Hebrides!. [But they originated on the Isle of Mull!.]
2) Irish--Anglicized form of [Irish-]Gaelic cognate with 1!.

McLeans arriving at the Port of New York immigrated from the following (self-reported) places of origin: Scotland 548, Ireland 371, England 179, Great Britain 106, Canada 20, Britain 16!.

The 1891 Scottish Census noted the greatest concentration of McLeans in Lanarkshire (the area around Glasgow), followed by McLeans living in Argyll, Inverness, and Ross and Cromarty!. All McLeans living in Scotland at this time were concentrated along the Atlantic Coast!.

The 1920 US Census notes the greatest number of McLeans in New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, followed by California, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania!. Judging by where the McLeans started and where they ended up, they probably left Scotland and Ireland or else immigrated to industrial Glasgow because of 1) the potato famine that hit both Ireland (1845-1849) and Highland Scotland (1846-1852) in the mid-19th-century or 2) the Highland Clearances, which also affected the Hebrides generally somewhat later than they hit mainland Scotland (around 1849)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

http://wc!.rootsweb!.ancestry!.com/cgi-bin/!.!.!.
has almost 85,000 entries for the surname!.

http://genforum!.genealogy!.com/mclean/
is a real genealogy bulletin board devoted to the surname!. It has 2714 posts at the moment!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

McLean is a fairly common last name (see Ted Pack's #s)!.
Other associations with the name are McLean Hospital (Belmont MA) and McLean VA!.
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I would say absolutely!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com