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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chuda, ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Chuda’, a personal name of unexplained origin. This was the name of a 7th-century abbot-bishop of Rathin in County Westmeath.

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