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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Leanacháin ‘descendant of Leanachán’, a personal name, probably derived from leann ‘cloak’. (Derivation from léanach ‘sorrowful’ is phonologically unlikely).

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