Family name origins & meanings
- Irish (Munster) and Manx : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuirc ‘descendant of Corc’, a personal name from corc ‘heart’, or curc ‘tuft (of hair)’. It is sometimes translated Oates, as if from coirce ‘oats’.
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