What does your Irish family name mean? Here are top 100 clans!

I don't see Rainey ther either... I do beleive it's Scottish but traced back to Irish decent

On board with Allan O'Grady.....where are the O'Grady's in this mix??

I am shocked that Butler did not make the top 100, kinda sad really.

Hello, I wish I had found this earlier. Its very informative. Great x

Could not find any "Ganley" on he site

ANyone know the origin of the name D'Arcy, Darcy?

Our original name was A'Hearn or O'Hearn.The first immigrants dropped the A or O and added the e to seem more English as the Irish were not well liked in America.translates roughly to Lord of the horses or dweller in the valley of the horses.

Kennedy = Son of Uglyhead. Heard it way too many times.

We O'Gradys always seem to be forgotten in these lists.

mairin67: "The Irish are fierce protectors of their identity". That's complete nonsense. If they were protective of their identity they wouldn't have----1/ abandoned their ancient language, the very essence of national identity, and----2/ undertaken the project of Mass Immigration & Settlement, in which up to 20% of the population of the country are not Irish and have no Irish identity. Check out he Passport office in Dublin--it's full of people filing for Irish passports who clearly do not have an Irish identity.

I'm surprised that more emphasis is not given to the fact that a high proportion of family names in Ireland are of pre-Gaelic (Iberian?) / Scandinavian / Welsh / English / Scottish / French / Flemish / more English / more Scotttish / Dutch / German / Spanish and Italian origin. America was hardly the first "meltingpot" - the same process has been going on (to a greater or lesser extent, and with varying dynamics) for many thousands of years all over the world, including Ireland, which is no more "Celtic" than the USA is WASP.

Saw Kelly but no Keller - what's up with that? Good thing I have friends in low places - LOL.

I see that Hughes means fire: I wonder if that means acutual fire or a mental state of mind. As in someone with "fire in his belly" so to speak.

O'Suilleabhain is translated as "The One Eye". Clancy,Tracy, Patterson , they shouls be all in the top 100. Power is another Norman name, it comes from De Paor and is tyoped like that in Gaelic. "More Power sez Oul Power when young Power was born!!!

Didn't find Clancy/Clancey.