Surnames in Ireland



    Households with surnames ending "han" in Griffith's

The suffix án was originally a diminutive, perhaps slightly affectionate.
So Houlihan, deriving from úalach, meaning "proud", might be translated something like "Your man, the proud fellow".

 


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