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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (mainly Connacht) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Geigheannaigh ‘descendant of Géibheannach’ or Mac Géibheannaigh ‘son of Géibheannach’, a byname meaning ‘fettered’.

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