Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ruaidhín ‘son of Ruaidhín’, a byname meaning ‘the little red one’, from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’. Compare Ryan, O’Ryan.
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