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Updated February 1, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phádraig ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Patrick’ (Irish Pádraig).
  • Scottish : habitational name from any of various places named in Gaelic as cill Padraig ‘church of (Saint) Patrick’.

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