Sloinnte — the names

Clans & surnames A–Z

285 names and growing — Gaelic septs, Norman houses, Viking survivals, Ulster Scots, and the New Irish. Each one has a meaning, a homeland you can see on the map, and a story worth telling at the table.

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Is your surname Irish? Gaelic, Norman, plantation-era — or two families sharing a spelling. Every surname in Irish Murphy was Ó Murchadha. The whole list, side by side. The surname map Which names belong to which county, on the map. What Ó and Mac mean The prefixes, the women's forms, and three myths. The most common twenty Murphy, Kelly, O'Sullivan — the top of the list, ranked. Where the names came from Gaelic, Norman, Norse, Scots — sorted by origin.

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