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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hAinmhire ‘descendant of Ainmhire’, a personal name meaning ‘very wild’. This form is found in Co. Galway; a more widespread Anglicization is Hanbury.

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