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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhghusa ‘descendant of Dubhghusa’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + gus meaning ‘choice’ or ‘vigor’.

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