Irish Submitted Surnames

Irish names are used on the island of Ireland as well as elsewhere in the Western World as a result of the Irish diaspora. See also about Irish names.

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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

Renehan Irish
Derived from Irish Gaelic, meaning "sharp- or star-pointed."

Rewhorn Irish (Rare)

Rey Welsh, Scottish, Irish
Either a variant of McRae, or else directly derived from Irish rí, Scottish Rìgh, or Welsh ri, rhi, or rhiau, all meaning "king"... [more]

Rhea Scottish, Irish

Rhine German, French, English, Irish
A habitational name for an individual whom lived within close proximity of the River Rhine (see Rhein). The river name is derived from a Celtic word meaning 'to flow' (Welsh redan, 'flow').... [more]

Rian Irish (Anglicized, Rare, ?)
An alternate spelling and pronunciation of Ó Riain, due to French influences after the progenitors of the family moved to France from Ireland.

Rielly Irish (Anglicized)
Variant of Reilly.

Roan Irish
variant of Roane

Roane Irish
Variant spelling of Rowan or possibly a variant of Ruane.

Roddy Irish, Welsh
Derived from the Gaelic name Ó Rodaigh and linked to the given name Roddy meaning spirited or fierce

Roe Irish
Derived from/Anglicised form of 'Ruagh', an Irish word meaning redhead, or red haired

Rogan Irish
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruadhagáin ‘son of Ruadhagán’, a personal name from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’.

Roney Irish, Manx
Irish variant and Manx form of Rooney.

Rooney Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruanaidh "descendant of Ruanadh", a byname meaning "champion".

Rorke Irish
The name comes from the Gaelic O Ruairc, which means descendant of Ruairc.

Rourke Irish
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruairc ‘descendant of Ruarc’, Old Gaelic Ruadhrac, a personal name from Norse Hrothrekr (see Roderick)... [more]

Ruadhagin Irish
Meaning, ‘son of Ruadhagán.’

Rush Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruis "descendant of Ros", a personal name perhaps derived from ros "wood". In Connacht it has also been used as a translation of Ó Luachra (see Loughrey).

Rushe English, Irish
Variant of Rush

Saldrim Irish
Means "One who knows".

Sankey English, Irish
Habitational name from a place in Lancashire, which derived from the name of an ancient British river, perhaps meaning "sacred, holy." ... [more]

Scanlan Irish
Anglicized form of Irish-Gaelic Ó Scannláin

Scanlon Irish
Anglicized form of Ó Scannláin.

Scannell Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Scannail, meaning "Descendant of Scannal," a name meaning "contention"

Scannláin Irish
The name originally appeared in Gaelic as Ó Scannláin or Mac Scannláin, which are both derived from the word scannal. which means "contention."

Scarry Irish
Shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Scurra, meaning ‘descendant of Scurra’, a personal name of uncertain origin.

Scudder Irish

Scurlock Welsh, Irish
Obscure, probably derived from 'ystog', a Welsh word meaning 'fortress'

Scurry Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Scoireadh, meaning ‘descendant of Scoireadh’.

Seay Scottish, Irish
Of uncertain origin and meaning.

Seoighe Irish
Irish version of the surname Joyce

Seperac Irish

Seth Scottish, Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Sithigh or Ó Síthigh (see Sheehy).

Shaddy Irish
Origin unidentified. Perhaps a variant of Irish Sheedy.

Shady English, Irish
Origin unidentified. Possibly Irish or English.

Shanahan Irish
Anglicised form of Ó Seanachain.

Shanley Irish
Shortened form of MacShanley.

Shark Irish

Sharkey Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Ó Searcaigh.

Shawnacy Irish (Anglicized)

Shay Irish
Variant of Shea.

Shee Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of O'Shea.

Sheehan Irish (Anglicized, Archaic)
From irish "O Siodhachain" meaning "descendant of Siodhach" - peaceful or gentle, courteous.

Sheehey Irish
Variant of Sheehy.

Sheelan Irish

Sheene Irish (Anglicized)
Derived from the Gaelic siodhach which means "peaceful." Most commonly used in Ireland and originated in the county's southwest region.

Sheeran English, Irish
Shortened form of O'Sheeran.

Sheil Irish

Shelley English, Irish
From the given name Shelley It means "wooded clearing" in Irish.

Shelley English, Irish (Anglicized)
Habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex Suffolk Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex)... [more]

Sherlock English, Irish
Nickname for someone with "fair hair" or "a lock of fair hair."

Shiel Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Ó Siadhail.

Shields Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Siadhail

Shiels Irish (Anglicized)
Variant of Shiel.

Shinnan Irish

Shivers Irish
Irish variant of Chivers.

Sibley Irish, American

Silk English, Irish
English: metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from Middle English selk(e), silk(e) ‘silk’. ... [more]

Sineath English, Irish
Variant of Sinnott. Not to be confused with the Irish first name Sinéad.

Sinnott English, Irish
From the medieval personal name Sinod (from Old English Sigenōth, literally "victory-brave").... [more]

Siobhán Irish
From the given name Siobhán.

Sionóid Irish
Gaelicization of Sinnott.

Skelly Irish
Anglicization of the Gaelic O Scolaidhe, which means student.

Skerritt Irish

Skerry Irish
Variant of Scarry or Scurry.

Slattery Irish (Anglicized, Modern)
Irish (Munster): reduced form of O’Slattery, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Slat(ar)ra ‘descendant of Slatra’, a byname meaning "robust", "strong", "bold".

Smullen Irish
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Smolláin, according to Patrick Woulfe, a variant of Ó Spealáin (see Spillane).

Somerville Scottish, Irish (Anglicized, Rare)
Scottish (of Norman origin) habitational name, probably from Graveron Sémerville in Nord, named with the Germanic personal name Sigimar (see Siemer) + Old French ville ‘settlement’... [more]

Spages Irish
Most likely an Irish surname. It was used in the 1976 movie Alice, Sweet Alice.

Spelling English, Irish, Jewish
Occupational name for a scholar, speaker or a story teller, derived from Middle English spellan meaning "to tell or relate". It could also be a variant of Irish Spillane or Jewish Spellman... [more]

Spillane Irish
Irish: reduced form O’Spillane, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Spealáin or ‘descendant of Spealán’, a personal name representing a diminutive of "speal" "‘scythe’"... [more]

Spinks Irish (?)

Splain Irish
Irish: reduced form of Spillane.

Steeves Irish

St Leger Irish, English
Anglo-Irish surname, from one of the places in France called Saint-Léger, which were named in honour of St. Leodegar.

Stockard Irish
Variant of Stoker, an occupational name for a trumpeter derived from Gaelic stocaire, an agent derivative of stoc "trumpet, horn". The name is borne by a sept of the McFarlanes.

Stohoke Irish
Gaelic name that originated in Ireland.

Stoker Scottish, Irish
Means "trumpeter", from Scottish Gaelic and Irish stoc "trumpet, bugle, horn".

Stokes Irish, Scottish
Variant of Stoke and Stohoke... [more]

Strain Scottish, Irish
Derived from the valley of the Aan, or strath Aan.

Streett Irish

Studders Irish

Sulivan Irish
Variant of Sullivan.

Summerly Irish
From Irish Gaelic Ó Somacháin "descendant of Somachán", a nickname meaning literally "gentle" or "innocent".

Swain Scottish, Irish, English
Northern English occupational name for a servant or attendant, from Middle English swein "young man attendant upon a knight", which was derived from Old Norse sveinn "boy, servant, attendant"... [more]

Swaney Irish

Sweeney Irish
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Sweeny Irish
Irish variant spelling of Sweeney.

Sylvers Irish
Variant of Silvers.

Tallant English (British, ?), Norman, Irish
English (of Norman origin) occupational name for a tailor or nickname for a good swordsman, from taillant ‘cutting’, present participle of Old French tailler ‘to cut’ (Late Latin taliare, from talea ‘(plant) cutting’)... [more]

Talley Irish (Anglicized)
Shortend anglicized form of Ó Taithligh.

Tallon English, Irish, Norman, French
English and Irish (of Norman origin), and French from a Germanic personal name derived from tal ‘destroy’, either as a short form of a compound name with this first element (compare Talbot) or as an independent byname... [more]

Tarmey Irish, Scottish
Variant of Tormey.

Teyler Scottish, Irish

Theodulf Irish (?)
The name means "Wolf God" or "Wolf of Gods Blood".... [more]

Thorold English, Irish
Derived from the Middle English personal name Thurold, Thorold, Thorald reflexes of Old Scandinavian Þórvaldr from the elements Þórr "Thor" and valdr "power rule"... [more]

Thulis Irish
The meaning of the name is unclear, but it seems to derive from the pre 13th century Gaelic O' Tuathalain suggesting that it was probably religious and may translate as "The male descendant of the follower of the lord".

Tiernan Irish
Variant of McTiernan

Tilling Irish, English

Timmons Irish
Reduced anglicisation of Gaelic Mac Toimín meaning "son of Toimín" (a pet form of Tomás, itself a Gaelic form of Thomas)... [more]

Timoney Irish (Gallicized)
The name Timoney is an Irish name. It originated in the west of Ireland. In Irish it is O'Tiománaí. Tiománaí means driver in Irish.

Toal Irish
Irish

Tolan Irish
Recorded as O'Tolan, O'Twolan, Toland, Toolan, Toolin, apparently Thulis, possibly on some occasions O'Toole, and probably others, this is an ancient Irish surname of very confusing origins... [more]

Toland Irish
The meaning of the name is unclear, but it seems to derive from the pre 13th century Gaelic O'Tuathalain suggesting that it was probably religious and may translate as "The male descendant of the follower of the lord".

Tolton English, Irish
habitational name possibly from either of two places called Tollerton in Nottinghamshire and North Yorkshire. The first is named from the Old Norse personal name Þórleifr and Old English tun "settlement, enclosure"; the second is from Old English tolnere "tax gatherers" and tun.

Tomás Spanish, Portuguese, Irish
From the given name Tomás.

Toner Irish (Anglicized, Modern)
An anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic surname, O'Tomhrair. Still used in the modern day Republic of Ireland, and relatively common in Atlantic Canada.

Tooker Irish
Variant of Tucker.

Toolan Irish
The meaning of the name is unclear, but it seems to derive from the pre 13th century Gaelic O'Tuathalain suggesting that it was probably religious and may translate as "The male descendant of the follower of the lord".

Toolin Irish
The meaning of the name is unclear, but it seems to derive from the pre 13th century Gaelic O'Tuathalain suggesting that it was probably religious and may translate as "The male descendant of the follower of the lord".

Toomey Irish
from ancient Gaelic personal name 'Tuama', probably derived from 'tuaim', meaning a hill or a small mountain

Toopy Irish

Toran Galician, Irish
Galician (Torán): habitational name from the village of Santa María de Torán in Ourense province.... [more]

Tormey Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of Ó Tormaigh.

Torren Scottish, Irish

Torrence Scottish, Irish
Scottish and northern Irish habitational name from either of two places called Torrance (one near East Kilbride, the other north of Glasgow under the Campsie Fells), named with Gaelic torran ‘hillock’, ‘mound’, with the later addition of the English plural -s.... [more]

Totum Irish (Rare)
from the word "totem" meaning sign. Or from Irish 'titim' meaning 'fall'.

Trainor Irish
Reduced form of McTraynor, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thréinfhir "son of Tréinfhear", a byname meaning "champion, strong man" (from tréan "strong" and fear "man").

Trill Irish

Troy Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Troighthigh "descendant of Troightheach", a byname meaning "foot soldier".

Tuíneán Irish
Meaning, "watercourse."

Tully Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Taithligh "descendant of Taithleach", a byname meaning "quiet", "peaceable".

Tully Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maol Tuile "descendant of the devotee of the will of God" (from toil "will of God").

Tunire Irish
Originates from an old folklore joke. Originates from Tuuniro

Turley Irish, English

Tuttle English, English (American), Irish
Derived from the Old Norse given name Þorkell, derived from the elements þórr (see Thor) and ketill "cauldron". The name evolved into Thurkill and Thirkill in England and came into use as a given name in the Middle Ages... [more]

Tuuniro m Irish
An old version of the name Tunire while also being an equivalent name to Tukira

Tweed Irish
Variant of Tuite.

Tynan Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Ó Teimhneain.

Tyner Irish
An Anglicized version of the Gaelic name O Teimhneain, which is derived from the word teimhean, meaning "dark."

Tyrone Irish
Probably a habitational name from the county of Tyrone (Gaelic Tir Eoghain "land of Owen 2") in Ulster.

Uniacke Irish
Unknown meaning.

Union English, Irish
A notable bearer is Gabrielle Union, an actress.

Urie Scottish, English, Irish
From the Scottish Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire. May mean someone who is brave and loud.

Vahey English, Irish (Anglicized)
Variant of Fahey

Valiant English, Scottish, Irish
Derived from Old French vaillant meaning "heroic, courageous".

Victory Irish

Walch Irish
Variant of Walsh.

Waldon Irish

Wall Irish
Anglicized from of de Bhál, a Gaelicized form of de Valle (see Devall).

Walsch Irish
Variant of Walsh.

Walshe Irish
Variant spelling of Walsh.

Warnick Irish
Variant of MacGilvernock.

Warnock Irish
Variant of MacGilvernock.

Wathers Irish
The surname originated in Donegal, Ireland. MacConuisce was an Anglicized form of o'hUisce. Uisce translates to water in English. Wathers is a rather uncommon name because it is an untraditional way of spelling Waters... [more]

Weir Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir "son of the steward or keeper".

Weir Irish
Anglicized form, based on an erroneous translation (as if from Gaelic cora "weir", "stepping stones"), of various Gaelic names such as Ó Corra (see Corr) and Ó Comhraidhe (see Curry).

Welsh Irish
Variant of Walsh.

Whalin Irish

Whyte Scottish, Irish, English
Variant of White.

Wilde Irish, English, German, Dutch, Jewish
Variant of Wild.

Wilgar Irish
An ancient surname of Olde English and Scottish origins. It is usually occupational for a textile fuller, deriving from the pre 7th century word wealcere, meaning to walk or tread.

Windham English, Irish (Anglicized)
English habitational name from Wyndham in West Sussex, near West Grinstead, probably named from an unattested Old English personal name Winda + Old English hamm ‘water meadow’; or from Wymondham in Leicestershire and Norfolk, named from the Old English personal name Wigmund (see Wyman) + Old English ham ‘homestead’... [more]

Wogan Irish
From the Old Welsh personal name Gwgan or Gwgon, originally probably a nickname meaning literally "little scowler". (Cf. the second element in Cadogan.) This surname is borne by Irish radio and television presenter Terry Wogan (1938-).

Woodlock Irish, French, English
From an Old English personal name, Wudlac, composed of the elements wudu ‘wood’ + lac ‘play’, ‘sport’.

Woulfe English, Irish
English: variant spelling of Wolf. ... [more]

Wrinn Irish (Anglicized)
From Irish Gaelic Ó Rinn "descendant of Rinn", a personal name perhaps based on reann "spear".

Wynd Scottish, Irish
Scotland or Ireland not sure of original origin. There was a childe Wynd some type of royal who slayed a dragon type thing worm or something and a Henery Wynd who was a mercenary in a battle at north inch in Scotland

Yaw Irish, English, Chinese
Irish: reduced and altered Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eochadha Chinese : Cantonese variant of Qiu.

Yeager English, Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of German Jäger.

Youngkin Scottish (?), Irish (?)
Possibly derived from Younkin; A Strathclyde-Briton family from the Scottish/English Borderlands was the first to use the surname Younkin. It is a name for a person who was very young, from the Old English word yong and yung... [more]

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