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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : from a derivative of Old French hurer ‘to bristle or ruffle’, ‘to stand on end’ (see Huron).
  • Irish : this may be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarghaill ‘descendant of Earghall’, a variant of Ó Fearghail (see Farrell).

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