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Yes, 'son of ...' same as the O' prefix. Eg MacDonald means son of Donald, O'Connor means son of Connor.

Mac is Gaelic for son...in a name it means son of _______

Mac, Mc and Fitz means son of.

The prefix O does not mean son of but descendant of.

A lot of Scottish names begin with Mac - which means "son of"...

Mc is more commonly Irish

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,
Mac Name Meaning and History
Vietnamese: unexplained.
Shortened form of any of the many Scottish and Irish surnames formed with Gaelic mac ‘son of’.
hope this helps.

Generally, Mac is Scottish, Mc is northern Irish. Means son of.....

Their is a lot of them with an O in the middle, O Connor, O Flarty, O Rourke, O Sullivan, O Deskill, O Keefe, O Donnell's, etc, etc,
The Irish people have come from clans, and you can bye a map with all the different clans in their.