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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉanáin ‘descendant of Éanán’. Woulfe, however, believes it to be a form of Ó hEidhneáin, which he derives from a diminutive of eidhean ‘ivy’.
  • Irish : sometimes a reduced version of Heneghan.

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