Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fionnghusa ‘descendant of Fionnghus’, a personal name composed of the elements fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ + gus ‘vigor’, ‘force’.
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