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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uidhrín, a patronymic from a personal name which is from a diminutive of odhar ‘dun’. This surname is also found in Galloway in Scotland, where it is of Irish origin.

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