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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mothlacháin ‘descendant of Mothlachán’, a byname or personal name from a diminutive form of mothlach ‘shaggy’.
  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolacháin ‘descendant of Maolachán’, a personal name.

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