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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Connacht) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Díscín ‘descendant of Díscín’, which may be derived from díosc ‘barren’. The place name Ballyeeskeen, now Ballydiscin, in County Sligo, is derived from the surname.

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