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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laochdha ‘descendant of Laochdha’, a personal name derived from laoch ‘hero’.
  • In Quebec, some families named Lahaie or Lahaye are descended from a Teague Leahy from Dublin, Ireland.

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