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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cléirich ‘son of the cleric’ (see Cleary).
  • Northern Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Arraith ‘son of the servant of Arraith’, or Woulfe suggests of Mac Giolla an Raith ‘son of the prosperous youth’.

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