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Faughnan

Updated: April 26, 2025
Updated: April 26, 2025

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fachtnáin ‘descendant of Fachtnán’, a personal name representing a diminutive of Fachtna, an ancient name meaning ‘hostile’.

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