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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireáin ‘descendant of Muireán’, most probably a diminutive of a personal name beginning with muir ‘sea’.
  • English (Devon) : unexplained; possibly a variant of Morrin.

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