Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gláimhin, from a diminutive of glámh ‘satirist’.
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Láimhín, formerly Mag Fhlaithimhín, from flaitheamh ‘ruler’. Mag Láimhín has sometimes been ‘translated’ Hand, from the similarity of the reduced form to lámh ‘hand’.