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Is O'meara an Irish name

Updated: 10/24/2023
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12y ago

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Yes it is. Almost every name with O is Irish, because ó in Gaelic means 'from'. So in Irish boys had first names and then ó and the clan/father they were from. (I say boys because girls had ní) So if your name is Séan ó meara it's Séan from the Meara clan.

If your interested, there's a myth (not proven) that people with ó and mac in their names were those with such great pride they refused the soup from the Quaker soup kitchens during the Irish famine.

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6mo ago

Yes, O'Meara is an Irish name. It is an anglicized version of the Irish surname Ó Mídheachra, which means "descendant of Mídheachra." The name is commonly found in County Tipperary, Ireland.

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