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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Munster) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fionnmhacáin ‘descendant of Fionnmhacán’, from fionn ‘fair’ + the diminutive of mac ‘son’.

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