Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maoilearca ‘descendant of Maoilearca’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Earc’, (a personal name with two possible meanings: ‘speckled’, ‘dark red’, or ‘salmon’).
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