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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish and Scottish : variant spelling of Hilly, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIcheallaigh, itself a variant of Ó Fithcheallaigh ‘descendant of Fithcheallach’ (see Feeley).

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