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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maoilmheana ‘descendant of Maoilmheana’, a personal name meaning ‘chieftain of the Main (river)’. In Donegal it may be an Anglicized form of Ó Maolmhaghna.

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