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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish and Scottish (Galloway) : Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac (Mag) Reannacháin, a patronymic from the personal name Reannachán, probably derived from reannach ‘sharp’, ‘pointed’.

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