Family name origins & meanings
- Irish (Connacht) : probably a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gáibhtheacháin ‘descendant of Gáibhtheachán’, a personal name derived from a derivative of the adjective gáibhtheach ‘fierce’, ‘eager’.
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