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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin ‘descendant of Liathán’, a personal name from a diminutive of liath ‘gray’.
  • Dutch : nickname for a conceited person or a dandy, from haan ‘cock’.

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