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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : variant of Toohey.
  • Irish : (Mayo) reduced form of O’Towey, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Toghdha ‘descendant of Toghdha’, from toghdha ‘chosen’.

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