[Montanabound]

I first thought this was a thread about country singer Neal McCoy. His real name is McGaughey, pronounced “McGoy”, but everyone was mispronouncing it as “McCoy” when he was starting his career, so he just went ahead and changed it. (His father was of Irish descent, and his mother is from the Philippines.)

[Little Bill]

My Grandmothers Mother was a McCaughey, my Grandmother married a McGaughey, gets confusing, she had a sister who Married a McCaughey, different branch.

I was down in the Delta in Mississippi and the McGaughey’s there pronounce it McGoy.