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Updated February 19, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fógartaigh ‘son of Fógartach’, a personal name from fógartha ‘proclaimed’, ‘banished’, ‘outlawed’. It is sometimes Anglicized as Howard.

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