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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : variant of Meyler, which was taken to Wexford, Ireland by a Welsh family so named. The surname is from the Welsh personal name Meilyr (Brythonic Maglorix, of which the second element is rhi ‘king’), and was Gaelicized as Mac Maoilir.

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