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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Cork) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhaigh ‘descendant of Buadhach’, a personal name meaning ‘victorious’. (The British name Boudicca or Boadicea, borne by the Queen of the Iceni who in ad 62 led a revolt against the Roman occupation of her country, is a cognate.)

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