Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Lachtnáin
‘descendant of Lachtnán’, a personal name from
lachtna ‘gray’. This is the name of several families in
Ireland, and has more often been Anglicized as Loughlin or
Loughran, and in County Cork as Lawton.
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