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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Geargáin ‘descendant of Geargán’ or Mac Geargáin ‘son of Geargán’, a personal name from a diminutive of garg ‘fierce’.

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