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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (especially County Cork) : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAirtnéada ‘descendant of Airtnéad’, a personal name of uncertain origin. The first syllable is probably from Art ‘bear’, ‘hero’.

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