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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Reduced form of Irish Magullion or Mac Gullian, Anglicized forms of Gaelic Mac Gilleáin, a diminutive of gile ‘brightness’, geal ‘bright’, or giolla ‘lad’.

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