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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Enclosed

Boy name variations

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Taidhg ‘descendant of Tadhg’, a byname meaning ‘bard’, ‘poet’, ‘philosopher’.
  • Irish : In Ulster it is sometimes an Anglicization of Mac Taidhg, which is more commonly Anglicized as McCaig.

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