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Updated January 24, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Welsh : Son of Owen

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and Irish : nickname from Gaelic buidhe ‘yellow’, ‘fair-haired’, or possibly an Anglicized form of Ó Buadhaigh (see Bogue).

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