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Updated August 15, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Gaelic : Little peaceful one

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Sheehan

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of O’Sheehan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Síodhacháin ‘descendant of Síodhachán’, a personal name representing a diminutive of síodhach ‘peaceful’, the same word as sítheach. Compare Sheehy.

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