Boy name origins & meanings
- Irish : Sea warrior; expert seaman
Family name origins & meanings
- Irish (Kerry) : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muircheartaigh ‘descendant of Muircheartach’, a personal name composed of the elements muir ‘sea’ + ceardach ‘skilled’, i.e. ‘skilled navigator’. A Meath and Monaghan name of the same form is Anglicized as Murtagh.