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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (midland and Ulster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maoilchiaráin ‘descendant of Maoilchiaráin’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Ciarán’ (a personal name from a diminutive of ciar ‘black’).

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