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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Feisty
  • Irish : Servant

How Popular Is The Name Laughlin

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Lochlainn ‘descendant of Lochlann’, a personal name meaning ‘stranger’, originally a term denoting Scandinavia (a compound of loch ‘lake’, ‘fjord’ + lann ‘land’). Many Irish bearers of the name claim descent from Lochlann, a 10th century lord of Corcomroe, County Clare.

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