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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Ulster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maoldoraidh, ‘descendant of Maoldoraidh’ meaning ‘contentious chief’.
  • Irish (Ulster) : possibly a variant of Mulgrew.

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