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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAnluain ‘descendant of Anluan’, a personal name from the intensive prefix an- + luan ‘light’, ‘radiance’ or ‘warrior’. Occasionally Hanlon has been used to represent Hallinan.

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