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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of Gaelic Ó Gabhláin, a name from the diminutive of gabhal ‘fork’.
  • North German : possibly a nickname for a hog farmer or an unkempt person, from Middle Low German verken ‘piglet’.

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