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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhláimhín ‘son of Flaithimhín’, a personal name from a diminutive of flaith ‘prince’, ‘ruler’ (see Lavin).

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