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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁilleacháin ‘descendant of Áilleachán’, a personal name from a diminutive of áille ‘beauty’. This Cork surname is sometimes confused with Halligan, an Ulster surname.

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