Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Callaráin ‘descendant of Callarán’, which is probably a diminutive of the byname Callaire ‘cryer’, although Woulfe suggests it may be from the Connacht name Mac Allmhuráin.
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