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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Leinster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolchathail ‘descendant of Maolchathail’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Cathal’ (see Cahill).

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