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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maoilgheiric ‘descendant of Maoilgheiric’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Geiric’, probably to be identified with St. Cyriacus.

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