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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Maternal side

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coigligh ‘descendant of Coigleach’, a byname apparently representing a simplified form of coigealach ‘like a distaff’, ‘untidy person’. This was originally a Mayo name.

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