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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : shortened form of McGarraher, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Fhearchair ‘son of Fearchar’, a personal name composed of the elements fear ‘man’ + car ‘dear’, ‘loving’.

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