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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Eochagáin, a patronymic from the personal name Eochagán, a diminutive of Eochaidh, Eochaidhe ‘horseman’. Compare Caughey.

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