American Family Name Origins:
Herlihy
Frequency: (1147)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIarfhlatha ‘descendant of Iarfhlaith’, a personal name meaning ‘lord of the west’, sometimes Anglicized as Jarlath.
GIVEN NAMES: Irish 5%. Brendan (4), Eoin.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
