Family name origins & meanings
- Irish (Galway) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fathartaigh ‘descendant of Fathartach’, a personal name (also spelled Faghartach) meaning ‘noisy’, from a derivative of foghar ‘noise’.
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