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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician (Torán) : habitational name from the village of Santa María de Torán in Ourense province.
  • Irish : reduced form of O’Toran, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Toráin ‘descendant of Torán’, a personal name formed from a diminutive of tor ‘lord’, ‘hero’, ‘champion’.

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