Frequency: (445)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish (chiefly counties Louth and Armagh): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hInreachtaigh ‘descendant of Ionnrachtach’, a name meaning ‘attacker’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.




