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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thighearnáin, a patronymic from a lenited diminutive of the personal name Tighearna ‘lord’, ‘master’ (Old Irish tigern). Compare Tiernan.

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