Frequency: (110)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish (Louth, Monaghan): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Crabháin ‘son of Crabhán’, possibly meaning ‘religious’.
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