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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (especially County Cavan) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhuibhne, a patronymic from Duibhne, a personal name from duibhne ‘disagreeable’, ‘ill-going’.

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