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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEoghanáin ‘descendant of Eoghanán’, a pet form of the personal name Eógan, meaning ‘born of the yew’.
  • Irish : variant of Honeen, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUainín ‘descendant of Uainín’, a personal name formed from a diminutive of uaine ‘green’.

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