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Updated June 9, 2019

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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