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Updated January 22, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Donegal) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Baoithghill ‘descendant of Baoithgheall’, a personal name of uncertain meaning, perhaps from baoth ‘rash’ + geall ‘pledge’.

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