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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (County Down) : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAmhráin ‘descendant of Amhrán’, a diminutive of amhra ‘eminent’, ‘noble’.
  • French : from an assimilated form of the word haveron, a diminutive from Old French haf ‘hook’, ‘pickaxe’ (see Havard).

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