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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Sligo, now rare) : reduced form of O’Tunney, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tonnaigh ‘descendant of Tonnach’, a personal name meaning either ‘billowy’ (from tonn ‘wave’) or ‘shining’.

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