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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Tomaltaigh or Ó Tomaltaigh ‘son’ or ‘descendant of Tomaltach’, a byname meaning ‘glutton’, from tomaltach ‘bulky’.

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