Mullahy
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Frequency: (120)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish: shortened Americanized of Ó Maolaithche ‘descendant of the servant or devotee of Aithche’, a personal name which, according to Woulfe, means ‘votary of regeneration’.
GIVEN NAMES: Irish 13%. Aileen, Brendan.
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