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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiscin, which has also been Anglicized as Waters, although it is unlikely to have been derived from uisce ‘water’.
  • Scandinavian : unexplained.

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