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Hadden Irish
Variation of Haden

Hagan Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁgáin "descendant of Ógán", a personal name from a diminutive of óg "young".

Hagan Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodhagáin "descendant of Aodhagán", a personal name formed from a double diminutive of Aodh meaning "fire".

Haggerty Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized version of Ó hEigceartaigh, which is from the word "eigceartach", which means unjust.

Hainey Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Scottish, English
(Celtic) A lost me devil village in Scotland; or one who came from Hanney island in Berkshire.

Halligan Irish
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁilleagán "descendant of Áilleagán" a double diminutive of áille "beauty".

Hallihan Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Ó hÁilleacháin.

Hallinan Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁilgheanáin "descendant of Áilgheanán", a pet form of a personal name composed of old Celtic elements meaning "mild, noble person".

Halpin Irish
Anglicized form of the Irish-Gaelic given name Ó Hailpín.

Hamill Irish
According to MacLysaght, a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁdhmaill "descendant of Ádhmall", which he derives from ádhmall "active".

Hanafin Irish
Shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAinbhthín (modernized as Ó hAinifín) ‘descendant of Ainbhthín’, a personal name derived from ainbhíoth ‘non-peace’, ‘storm’.

Haney Irish
Derived from the Gaelic name Ó hEighnigh

Hanley Irish
Means “descendant of Áinle.” Derived from “O’Hanley,” an anglicized form of “Ó hÁinle,” ultimately from Gaelic “ainle” meaning “beauty, grace.”

Hanlon Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAnluain "descendant of Anluan", a personal name from the intensive prefix an- and luan "light", "radiance" or "warrior". Occasionally it has been used to represent Hallinan.

Hanna English, Irish, Scottish

Hanna Irish, Scottish
from Gaelic Ó hAnnaigh "descendant of Annach" a personal name of uncertain origin or from Gaelic Ó hÉanna "descendant of Éanna" also unexplained but well attested... [more]

Hannant Irish
A variant of the Irish surname Hannon An anglicized form of Irish-Gaelic Ó Hannáin

Hannity Irish

Hannon Irish

Hanon Irish, Walloon, French
Variant of Hannon. Borne by French pianist Charles-Louis Hanon.

Hanratty Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hInreachtaigh meaning "descendant of Ionnrachtach", a given name meaning "attacker".

Hanvey Irish
Variant of Hanafin.

Hare Irish (Anglicized), English (American)
Irish (Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÍr, meaning ‘long-lasting’. In Ireland this name is found in County Armagh; it has also long been established in Scotland.... [more]

Harkless English, Scottish, Irish
Derived from Harkin, a Scottish diminutive of Henry.

Harold Irish
Of direct Norse origin, but is also occasionally a variant of Harrell and Hurrell.

Harrigan Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Ó hArgáin.

Harshaw Irish, Northern Irish
Meaning uncertain, possibly a variant of Hershey or Archer.

Hartnett Irish

Harty Irish
Anglicized form of Ó Hathartaigh.

Hastings Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistín meaning "descendant of Oistín", the Gaelic form of a Norse variant of Austin, or possibly Eysteinn.

Haughey Irish

Hays English, Irish (Anglicized)
Variant of Hayes 1 or Hayes 2.

Heafey Irish

Heafy Irish
Variant of Heaphy.

Healion Irish

Healy Irish
Southern Irish: reduced form of O’Healy, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉilidhe ‘descendant of the claimant’, from éilidhe ‘claimant’, or of Gaelic Ó hÉalaighthe ‘descendant of Éaladhach’, a personal name probably from ealadhach ‘ingenious’.

Heaney Irish

Heaphy Irish
From Irish Gaelic Ó hÉamhthaigh meaning "descendant of Éamhthach", the given name Éamhthach meaning "swift" in Gaelic.

Hearne Irish
Anglicized form of Ó hEachthighearna.

Hearns Irish
Variant of Hearn.

Hearty English, Irish
Variant of Harty.

Hebor Irish
From forename Heber 1.

Heeley English, Irish
Variant of English Healey or Irish Healy.

Heffron Irish, English (American)
Of uncertain meaning. Private Babe Heffron was a famous bearer of that name.

Henley English, Irish, German (Anglicized)
English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. Most, for example those in Oxfordshire, Suffolk, and Warwickshire, are named with Old English héan (the weak dative case of heah ‘high’, originally used after a preposition and article) + Old English leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’... [more]

Hennelly Irish
From the Irish Ó'hIonnghaile, itself "descendant of (a variation of) Fionnghal" (fionn, "white, fair"; gall, "stranger")... [more]

Hennessee Irish
A variant of the traditionally Irish surname Hennessey or Hennessy, an Anglicization of Ó hAonghusa meaning "descendant of Aonghus".

Hennessey Irish
Variant spelling of Hennessy.

Hensen English, Irish
English patronymic from the personal name Henn/Henne, a short form of Henry, Hayne (see Hain), or Hendy... [more]

hEocha Irish

Herlihy Irish
From Irish Gaelic Ó hIarfhlatha "descendant of Iarfhlaith", a personal name meaning literally "lord of the west".

Herrick Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Ó hEirc "descendant of Erc", a byname meaning "speckled, spotted".

Heston English, Irish
Derived from Heston, a suburban area in West London (historically in Middlesex), or Histon, a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. It is either named with Old English hǣs meaning "brushwood" and tūn meaning "farmstead, settlement, estate", or from hyse "shoot, tendril, son, youth" and tūn... [more]

Hewton Irish
I can only date it back to Armagh County, Ireland in the early 1800s.

Hickson Irish, English
It means ‘countryman’ similar to Hickman

Higgins Irish
Variant of Hagan.

Hillery English, Irish
Variant of Hillary. This surname has long been established in the county of Clare in Ireland. It was borne by the Irish president Patrick Hillery (1923-2008).

Hindman Irish
Keeper of the king's deer.

Holland Irish (Anglicized), Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÓileáin, a variant of Ó hAoláin, from a form of Faolán (with loss of the initial F-)... [more]

Holleran Irish
Variant of Halloran.

Honan Irish

Hood Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUid meaning "descendant of Ud", a given name of uncertain derivation. Compare Mahood.

Hoolihan Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Ó hUallacháin.

Horan Irish
The last name Horan means warlike.It is the last name of one direction member Niall Horan

Horgan Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó hArgáin.

Hougan Irish
Variant of Hogan.

Houlihan Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Ó hUallacháin.

Hovenden English, Irish
Variant of Ovenden a habitational name perhaps derived from Ovingdean (Sussex) or Ovenden (Yorkshire)... [more]

Howley English, Irish
English habitational name from Howley in Warrington (Lancashire) or Howley in Morley (Yorkshire). The Lancashire name also appears as Hooley and Wholey while the Yorkshire placename comes from Old English hofe "ground ivy... [more]

Hughey Irish
From given name Huey

hUiginn Irish

Humphery English, Irish
English and Irish: variant of Humphrey.

Hurley English, Irish
Meaning is "from a corner clearing" in Old English. Also an anglicized form of an Irish name meaning "sea tide" or "sea valor".

Hurrell Irish
This may be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Hearghaill ‘descendant of Earghall’, a variant of Ó Fearghail (see Farrell).

Hussey English, Irish
As an English surname, it comes from two distinct sources. It is either of Norman origin, derived from Houssaye, the name of an area in Seine-Maritime which ultimately derives from Old French hous "holly"; or it is from a Middle English nickname given to a woman who was the mistress of a household, from an alteration of husewif "housewife"... [more]

Hussie English, Irish
Variant of Hussey. A notable bearer is American webcomic author/artist Andrew Hussie (1979-).

Hylands Irish, English (Rare)
Variant of Hyland 1 or Hyland 2.

Hyres Irish

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