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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Oitir ‘son of Oitir’, Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Óttarr, composed of the elements ótti ‘fear’, ‘dread’ + herr ‘army’.

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