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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Earnáin (Irish), Mac Gille Earnain (Scottish) ‘son of the devotee of (Saint) Earnan’, a personal name possibly derived from iarn ‘iron’.

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