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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Old Norse personal name Dólgfinnr, composed of the elements dólgr ‘wound’, ‘scar’
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duibhchinn (see Diffin), Ó Duibhghinn (see Deegan), or perhaps Ó Daimhín (see Devine).

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