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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Robhartaigh ‘son of Robhartach’, from robharta ‘full tide’. There has been considerable confusion with Ó Raithbheartaigh (see Rafferty), which may well be a later variant.

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