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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Connacht) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Duibh ‘son of the black-haired lad’, from dubh ‘dark’, ‘black-haired’, a very common name and name-forming element in Gaelic.

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