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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of the rare Munster name Ó Dorcháin ‘descendant of Dorchán’, a byname representing a diminutive of Gaelic dorcha ‘black’, ‘gloomy’.
  • Irish : variant of Dargan.

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