Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gláimhin, from a diminutive of glámh ‘satirist’.
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Láimhín, formerly Mag Fhlaithimhín, from flaitheamh ‘ruler’. Mag Láimhín has sometimes been ‘translated’ Hand, from the similarity of the reduced form to lámh ‘hand’.