"where some whose name was originally Hurley have now adopted the surname ""Commane"", since the Irish for the hurley-stick used in the sport of hurling is ""camán"" while the name ""Commane"" does not originate from that source. The exact meaning of the name Hurley is uncertain, due to it being a conglomerate of various Irish names. The ""O'Muirthile"" root in particular seems to roughly translate to ""of the sea tides"", implying the earliest Hurleys were seafarers, and giving it a strikingly similar meaning to the name Murphy. But while Murphy is the most common surname in all of Ireland, Hurley"
"actual name of the bearer's father. The names ""Amhlaibh"", ""Amhladh"", ""Amhlaidh"", and ""Amhlaoibh"" are Gaelic derivatives of the Old Norse personal names ""Áleifr"" and ""Óláfr"". In Ireland, the surnames are very common in the province of Ulster; they are also common in Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland. In 1990, the United States Census Bureau undertook a study of the 1990 United States Census, and released a sample of data concerning the most common names. According to this sample of 6.3 million people (who had 88,799 unique last names), ""MACAULEY"" (including ""MacAuley"" and ""Macauley"") ranked 20,117th most common last name,"
"it has been used to anglicise a number of Irish Gaelic names. The Irish origin comes from ""Murchadh"" (muir and cath) meaning ""Sea Battle"" or ""Sea Warrior"", which anglicised as Morrogh, Murrow, Moroghoe, Murphy, and Morrow. In Petty’s Census of 1659 O'Morrow and McMarrowe are recorded. However, it is more common for these Irish names to have been anglicised as Murphy, and it was more likely to find 'McMorrow' as an anglicisation of these names rather than the Scottish 'Morrow' on its own. Most Irish Morrows, especially in Ulster, will be descended from Scottish settlers due to the Plantation of"
"in County Donegal (""Dún na nGall"" means ""fort of the foreigner""), and thus is very common in Derry, and is the fourteenth most common by birth records in Ireland. In the United States, it was ranked by the 2000 US Census as the 433rd most common name out of over 68,000 surnames found. According to Professor Edward MacLysaght, in the mid 20th century Gallagher was one of the most common Irish surnames, most of the recorded births being located in the northern province, Ulster, and the western province, Connacht, with the majority being recorded in the homeland of the sept"
"abbot of Scrin Adamnain, died in 1022 AD. Gallchobhar was the one given the role of founding father of the clan at the advent of widespread surname usage in Ireland, which began around the 10th century. As with the modern Irish surname Ó Conchúir, frequently anglicized as O'Conor, Ó Gallchóir similarly appears to be a conjoined/compound word and shares in common with O'Connor, the same suffix. With O'Conner likewise starting out in the original Irish as Conchobhar/Conchubhar(Con-chobhar meaning ""lover of canines""). The original Irish spelling, Ó Gallchobhar, draws from this same compound naming convention. It is the most common surname"
"by the Anglo-Normans. Maitiú and Matha are the most common Irish variants of the name. The name is also sometimes used as an anglicisation of the Irish name ""Mathúin"", meaning ""bear"". The name Matthew became popular during the Middle Ages in Northwest Europe, and has been very common throughout the English-speaking world. In Ireland, Matthew was ranked the 15th most popular male name in 2007. In 2008, it was ranked 20th, falling to 23rd between 2009-2010, and then 24th between 2011-2012. In 2016, it was the 29th most popular male name in Ireland, rising to 26th in 2017. In the"
"It is also very common in Galloway, and the Isle of Man. The name O'Kelly, Kelly, Kelley, Kellie and the Gaelic form O'Ceallaigh, is the most common surname in Ireland. There are approximately half a million people worldwide who bear this name. Up until the 10th century surnames were not used in Ireland. The name O'Kelly did not spring from a single source, but arose independently in several areas in Ireland, also in Scotland and the Isle of Man and in England. In other areas, notably in Cornwall, Isle of Man and probably in Antrim, the name Kelly arose from"
"Moriarty (name) The name Moriarty is an Anglicized version of the Irish name Ó Muircheartaigh which originated in County Kerry in Ireland. ""Ó Muircheartaigh"" can be translated to mean 'navigator' or 'sea worthy', as the Irish word ""muir"" means sea (cognate to the Latin word ""mare"" for 'sea') and ""ceardach"" means skilled. Several people have the Irish name Moriarty, mostly as a surname. Using documentary evidence, flavoured by legend, researchers have isolated historical data using books by O'Hart, McLysaght and O'Brien, the Four Masters, baptismals, parish records, and ancient land grants. Despite the loss of records caused by the fire"
"Walsh (surname) Walsh is a common Irish surname, meaning ""Briton"" or ""foreigner"", literally ""Welshman"", taken to Ireland by British (Welsh, Cornish and Cumbrian) soldiers during and after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It is most common in County Mayo and County Kilkenny. It is the fourth most common surname in Ireland, and the 265th most common in the United States. There are variants including ""Walshe"", ""Welsh"", ""Brannagh"", and ""Breathnach"". Walsh is uncommon as a given name. The name is often pronounced ""Welsh"" in the south and west of the country. The Walsh crest is a white escutcheon shield with a"
"(or Scots-Irish) as well as Irish. Mac Murchadha Mac Murchaidh and Mac Murchadha (pronounced roughly ""MacMurakhy"" or ""MacMurafee"" and ""MacMuraha"", or ""MacMurahow"" respectively) are Gaelic-Irish surnames. They were anglicised to MacMurphy, Murphy, MacMurrough, Murrow and Morrow in the 17th century after moving to the Armagh area. However it has different origins than the Wexford, Cork and Fermanagh County septs (see Murphy and Morrow). The name Murchadh comes from the words """"muir"""" (meaning ""sea"") and """"cath"""" (meaning ""battle""). The name therefore comes to mean ""Sea Warrior"" and has been used in Ireland and Scotland. Over time the name has been Anglicised"
"of the Irish ""Muireadhach"". These names are derived from the element ""muir"", meaning ""sea"". The names have been generally translated into English as ""mariner""; for example, George Fraser Black translated the names as ""belonging to the sea"". According to Black, these personal names are much confused with the name ""Murchadh"", which has been translated into English as ""sea warrior"" and ""sea battler"". The feminine form of ""MacMhuirich"" is ""NicMhuirich"". This feminine name is composed of the prefix ""Nic-"", which is an abbreviated form of the Scottish Gaelic ""nighean mhic"" or ""nì mhic"", which translates into English as ""daughter of the"
"Mac Murchadha Mac Murchaidh and Mac Murchadha (pronounced roughly ""MacMurakhy"" or ""MacMurafee"" and ""MacMuraha"", or ""MacMurahow"" respectively) are Gaelic-Irish surnames. They were anglicised to MacMurphy, Murphy, MacMurrough, Murrow and Morrow in the 17th century after moving to the Armagh area. However it has different origins than the Wexford, Cork and Fermanagh County septs (see Murphy and Morrow). The name Murchadh comes from the words """"muir"""" (meaning ""sea"") and """"cath"""" (meaning ""battle""). The name therefore comes to mean ""Sea Warrior"" and has been used in Ireland and Scotland. Over time the name has been Anglicised as Murchison, Murphy, Morrow, Morrowson, MacMurphy,"
"spelling variations, the data showed that there were 107 total births in Ireland—6 of which were in the province of Leinster, 90 in the province of Ulster, and 11 in the province of Connacht; the counties in which these 107 births were principally found were County Antrim and County Donegal. In 1990, the United States Census Bureau undertook a study of the 1990 United States Census, and released a sample of data concerning the most common names. According to this sample of 6.3 million people (who had 88,799 unique last names), ""MCCAWLEY"" (""McCawley"") ranked 20,101st most common last name, and"
"In the Census of Ireland of 1659, from the poll money ordinance, the census describes the most common ""Irish"" names of County Monaghan and lists McTrenor among them citing 30 Irish McTrenor households. Common in Monaghan and throughout Ulster, the name is associated with Kelley and other Ui Maine ancestry. Legends from Clogher, Tyrone, Northern Ireland associate the name with Aedh Mac Cairthinn, the first Bishop of Clogher who was called Saint Patrick's ""strong man"". Some male Traynors conducting Y-DNA genealogy tests have traced their Y-DNA to z2961+ m222- R-FGC6562+ as an adjunct branch of the Ui Maine haplogroup descending"
"United States' Social Security Administration , ""Keenan"" was the 607th most popular first name for newborns in the United States in 2006, which is a decrease from being the 362nd most popular in 1992. Keenan Keenan (Cianán) is a male Irish name which means ""ancient, distant"". ""Keenan"" is an Anglicisation of the Irish name ""Cianán"" which is a diminutive of ""Cian"". The Ó Cianáin clan (Keenan) were the traditional historians to the McGuire clan. Recorded as O'Keenan and more usually Keenan, this is an Irish surname. Found mainly in the Ulster and northern counties of Fermanagh and Monaghan, it originates"
"(through her son by Henry I of England), Meiler FitzHenry, was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland for his cousin, Henry II. The most renowned of Gerald's and Nest's grandchildren, Gerald of Wales, gave an account of the Norman invasion, as well as lively and invaluable descriptions of Ireland and Wales in the late 12th century. According to the 1890 Matheson report, Fitzgerald/FitzGerald was the 36th most common surname in Ireland. Fitzgerald/FitzGerald is the 692nd most frequent surname in the United Kingdom. The surname occurs most frequently in the following ten counties, in descending order, with the number of occurrences in"
"a surname – With the variations of Martin, Martinsen, Martinson. Márton, the Hungarian form of the name, is commonly used as both a first name and surname. Surnames in Ireland are attested from the mid-10th century. Several distinct families featured the name as a surname element. They included Mac Giolla Mhártain, Ó Maol Mhartain, Ó Martain, Ó Máirtín, Mac Máirtín, Mac Máel Martain. Individuals included Echmílid mac Máel Martain (Bishop of Down to 1202), Giolla Ernain Ó Martain (Irish poet and Chief Ollam of Ireland, died 1218), and Fearghal Ó Martain, O.E.S.A. (Bishop of Killala from 1425 to 1432). After"
"championship rose in him, and fluttered over his head and on his breath. In modern Irish, ""Ó Murchú"", rather than ""Ó Murchadha"", is used. ""Murphy"" is the most common surname in Ireland, the fourteenth most common surname in Northern Ireland, and the fifty-eighth most common surname in the United States. The last name ""Murphy"" is also what Irish travellers called themselves when people asked for names. Murphy Murphy () is an Irish surname. The surname is a variant of two Irish surnames: ""Ó Murchadha""/""Ó Murchadh"" (descendant of ""Murchadh""), and ""Mac Murchaidh""/""Mac Murchadh"" (son of ""Murchadh"") derived from the Irish personal"
"of ""Amhladh"""" or ""son of ""Amhlaidh""""; and ""son of ""Amhlaoibh"""". The Gaelic surnames originated as a patronyms, however they are no longer used to refer to the actual names of the bearers' fathers. The names ""Amhladh"", ""Amhlaidh"", and ""Amhlaoibh"" are Gaelic derivatives of the Old Norse personal names ""Áleifr"" and ""Óláfr"". In Ireland, the surnames are generally popular in County Londonderry, in Northern Ireland, and the province of Ulster. It is also found in numbers in County Leitrim, County Galway, and County Wexford—all in the Republic of Ireland. According to the General Register Office in Ireland, there were 30 ""McCauley"""
"The name was transplanted to Ireland during the time of the Danish and Norman invasions, after which Mac was added to the name. =Medieval Spelling Variations= Spellings include McAlear, MacClure, MacLure, MacCloor, McLeur, McCloor and others. McAleer The surname McAleer is found in County Tyrone and Armagh, Ulster on the island of Ireland, moving into western regions of Scotland. It is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic ""Mac Giolla Uidhir"" or ""Mac Giolla Uír"". It is thought to mean ""Son of the servant of Saint Odhar"". Legend says that Saint Odhar was Saint Patrick's charioteer. The surname is most likely of"
"carrier or MAC ship, that is an escort carrier for anti-submarine warfare, an anti-submarine warfare carrier. McMahon McMahon or MacMahon (, ; older Irish orthography: ""Mac Mathghamhna""; reformed Irish orthography: ""Mac Mathúna"") is an Irish surname. The surname arose separately in two areas: in west County Clare and in County Monaghan. The County Monaghan (Airgíalla) MacMahons are not related to the County Clare (Thomond) MacMahons. The Thomond MacMahons were part of the great tribal grouping, the Dál gCais, and claimed descent from Mahon O'Brien, grandson of Brian Ború. The last chief of the name was killed at the battle of"
"Adair (name) Adair is a surname derived from the Old English personal name Eadgar (Edgar). In Ireland the surname is almost exclusive to Ulster and particularly to counties Antrim and Down. Here they are of Scottish origin where the surname is most common in Galloway. Many of the Galloway Adairs settled in Ulster during and after the Plantation. A few of the name in Ireland may be of the family name Ó Dáire. There is another theory that ""In about 1380, Robert Fitzgerald owned lands around Adare in Ireland. There he fought a family duel with Gerald, the white knight,"
"Byrne The most common meaning of Byrne (variations: Burns, Byrnes, O'Byrne) is a surname derived from the Irish name Ó Broin. There are two Irish surnames which have Byrne as their English spelling; the most common comes from Ó Broin, which refers to the Leinster-based family of Bran as described below, the less common family name is Ó Beirn or Ó Beirne in Irish comes from a different Sept or family and therefore has different origins. The latter is most commonly found in Mayo, Sligo and Donegal in the Northwest of Ireland. In the Irish language, ""Ó Broin"" means ""descendant"
"it onto the beach before the other challengers are able to reach shore, thus technically becoming the first of them to touch land and wins all of Ireland as his prize. However, the legends seem to originate in the seventeenth century, several many centuries after the red hand was already used by the O'Neill families. O'Neill (surname) The surname O'Neill is of Irish Gaelic origin, spelling variations include O'Neal, O'Neil, Ó Neill, Ó Néill, Ua Néill, Uí Néill and Neill. The surname O'Neill is an Anglicization of the original Gaelic ""Ua Néill"", composed of the elements ""ua"", meaning ""grandson"" or"
"In Northeastern Ulster, some McCourts may descend from the MacMhuircheartaigh (Son of the sea ruler) family. A sept of the powerful Clan Stuart of Bute, from the west of Scotland. Their surname, in addition to McCourt, has become McCurdy. Brought to Ireland by the Stewarts when they arrived at Ballintoy, having lost their lands in Bute in the mid 16th century, the name is now numerous in the glens and north coast of Antrim. McCourt McCourt (also rendered MacCourt, McCord, McCoard, McCard and occasionally Courtney) is an Irish surname associated with the province of Ulster. It derives from the Old"
"names with ""béal"" ('mouth') in such locations, as ""Béal Átha na Sluaighe"" (Ballinasloe, Co. Galway), ""Béal an Átha an Fheá"" (Ballina, Co. Mayo) or ""Béal Feirste"" (Belfast). The difference in usage may be explained by the fact that Gaelic names in Ireland are typically a thousand years older than those in Scotland, and hence the prevailing fashion could have been different. In Anglicised forms, ""inver"" occasionally appears as ""inner"", such as Innerleithen. Innerhaddon is variant of Inverhaddon. In some cases, an ""Inver"" has been lost, e.g. Ayr (Inbhir Air), which was recorded as ""Inberair"", and Ayre (Inver Ayre) in the"
"as well as ""FitzWilliam"" or ""Fitzwilliam"". Irish surnames are the oldest surnames in Europe. The common prefixes ""Ó"" and ""Mac"" can be spelled with the prefix as a separate word, yielding ""Ó Briain"" or ""Mac Millan"" as well as the anglicized ""O'Brien"" and ""MacMillan"" or ""Macmillan"". In the United States, 1,712 surnames cover 50% of the population, and about 1% of the population has the surname Smith, which is also the most frequent English name and an occupational name (""metal worker""), a contraction, for instance, of blacksmith or other metalsmiths. Several American surnames are a result of corruptions or phonetic"
"Ó Coileáin Ó Coileáin (Middle Irish: ""Ua Cuiléin"") is a Modern Irish surname generally belonging to the descendants of the last leading family of the Uí Chonaill Gabra, a sept and small but notable overkingdom of medieval and ancient Ireland, based in western County Limerick. Throughout much of their history the Uí Chonaill Gabra were in turn the leading sept of the greater regional overkingdom of the Uí Fidgenti, considered among the highest ranked princes or flatha in all the Province of Munster. Ó Coileáin/Ua Cuiléin is most commonly anglicized O'Collins and O'Cullane. The surname has also long been found"
"Irish word ""rían"", meaning ""water"" or ""ocean"". Others have suggested that it is related to the Old Irish word ""rí"", meaning ""king"". Both of these etymologies have been discounted by scholars, however. Popular sources typically suggest that ""Ryan"" means ""little king"" or ""illustrious"". There are also cases in which ""Ryan"" is an Americanized form of the German surname ""Rein"". Ryan (surname) Ryan (Irish: ""Ó Riain"") is a common Irish surname, as well as being a common given name. There are several different origins for the surname. In some cases it may be a shortened form of ""O'Ryan"", which is an"
"of emigrants from Ireland, of the Ó hAnnracháin family, Anglicised their names to ""O'Hanrahan"" or ""Hanrahan"". Eochaidh, King of Leinster, an early monarch who fled to Scotland in exile in 540, was the first ruler to bear the surname. The name originates from Anradhán, diminutive of the Old Irish word ""ánradh"", which translates as ""warrior"". The family motto is ""An Uachtar"" which means ""The cream"", (in the social sense), as in ""Uachtar reoite"", meaning ""ice cream"". Hanrahan O'Hanrahan is an Irish surname shared by many Irish people and descendants of Irish emigrants. The name is most common in the area"
"of the bearers' fathers. The names ""Amhladh"", ""Amhlaidh"", and ""Amhlaoibh"" are Gaelic derivatives of the Old Norse personal names ""Áleifr"" and ""Óláfr"". According to John O'Hart, a late 19th-century genealogist, the surname ""MacCawley"" is an Anglicised form of the Irish ""Ó Cadhla"", which translates into English as ""descendant of ""Cadhla"""". The surnames are said to be rare in Ireland, and found generally in the Midlands. According to the General Register Office in Ireland, there were 30 ""McCauley"" births recorded in 1890, and there were 49 for the surname ""McAuley"". When the numbers for these names were combined together, including certain"
"it the 562nd most common surname in America. Conley Conley (from ""O′Conghaile"", Ó Conghalaigh) is a surname of Irish origin. It is a variant spelling of several more common names like Conly, Connelly, and Connolly. ""Conly"" is listed in the census of 1659 as coming from the city of Dublin. ""O′Connoly"" was a principal name of Monaghan in 1679. 1911 60 people with the surname Conley are listed in the digitised census records of Ireland. Today 1,048 people have the surname Conley in the United Kingdom, a few less (−36) than in the 1881 census. As of the 2000 US"
"McAleer The surname McAleer is found in County Tyrone and Armagh, Ulster on the island of Ireland, moving into western regions of Scotland. It is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic ""Mac Giolla Uidhir"" or ""Mac Giolla Uír"". It is thought to mean ""Son of the servant of Saint Odhar"". Legend says that Saint Odhar was Saint Patrick's charioteer. The surname is most likely of Norse origin and is encountered frequently in Norway as Lier. It comes from ""La"" a sloping grassy hillside at the foot of a mountain, a dale, a glen, the plural of which is Lêr, pronunced Leer."