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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEislin, a reduced form of the older Ó hEisleanáin ‘descendant of Eisleanán’, probably from éislinn ‘unsafe’, ‘weak’.

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