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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maoilbhrighde, ‘descendant of Maoilbhrighde’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Brigid’. The modern Irish spelling of this name is Ó Maoilbhríde.

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