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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cathaláin ‘descendant of Cathalan’, a diminutive of Cathal (see Cahill). It may also be from Mac Uallocháin ‘son of Uallachán’, a personal name from a diminutive of uallach ‘proud’.

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