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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Ulster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolchraoibhe ‘descendant of Maolchraoibhe’, a personal name meaning ‘chief of Craobh’, a place on the Bann river.

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