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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAilpín ‘descendant of Alpín’, an ancient personal name, which MacLysaght and Woulfe link etymologically with alp ‘lump’.

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