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Pages in category "Surnames of Irish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 700 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
During the "Irish revival", some Irish names which had fallen out of use were revived. Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names Saoirse "freedom" and Aisling "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen from Caitlín and Shaun from Seán.
Pages in category "Irish-language surnames" The following 87 pages are in this category, out of 87 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Blondel (surname)
A first name may be modified by an adjective to distinguish its bearer from other people with the same name. Mór ("big") and Óg ("young") are used to distinguish parent and child, like "senior" and "junior" are used in English, but are placed between the given name and the surname, e.g. Seán Óg Ó Súilleabháin corresponds to "John O'Sullivan Jr." (anglicised surnames often omit O ...
Several surnames have multiple spellings; this is sometimes due to unrelated families bearing the same surname. A single surname in either language may have multiple translations in the other. In some English translations of the names, the M(a)c- prefix may be omitted in the English, e.g. Bain vs MacBain, Cowan vs MacCowan, Ritchie vs MacRitchie.
Pages in category "Anglicised Irish-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 437 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
McKenna is an Irish surname. It derives from the Gaelic name Cináed (Anglicized as Kenneth), meaning, “born of fire.” It is the anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Cionaodha meaning "son of Cionnaith", or of the Scottish surname, from Galloway, "MacCionaodha".
It should only contain pages that are Irish-language masculine surnames or lists of Irish-language masculine surnames, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Irish-language masculine surnames in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .