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Updated May 26, 2021

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mathghamhna ‘descendant of Mathghamhain’ (see Mahoney). There are two families of this name, in Cork and Ulster, but the Ulster family name was usually Anglicized as McMahon.

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