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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : with the stress on the first syllable, this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maothagáin ‘descendant of Maothagán’, a derivative of maoth ‘soft’.
  • Irish : with the stress on the second syllable, it is a variant of McGahan.

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