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Doherty

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochartaigh ‘descendant of Dochartach’, a byname from do + cartach ‘not loving’. The family were chieftains in Donegal.

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