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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fionnaláin ‘descendant of Fionnalán’, a personal name from a diminutive of fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ (see Finn 1).
  • English (Huguenot) : altered form of French Fénelon (see Fenelon).

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