Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish and Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Fhaolain (Scottish) and Mac Giolla Fhaoláin (Irish) ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Faolán’ (see Whelan).
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