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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luachra ‘descendant of Luachra’, a personal name derived from luachair ‘light’. The name is often translated, Rush from a Gaelic homonym, luachair meaning ‘rush’.

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