Irish Newfie Names

Irish Names

for Your Newfie Puppy

Surnames
Below are 50 of the most common Irish surnames,

their source and their meaning.

Brennan: The meaning of this name in Irish is either sorrow, or little drop.

Brown or Browne

Burke

Byrne

Callaghan

Campbell

Carroll

Clarke

Collins

Connell

Connolly

Connor: means hero or champion.

Daly: meaning a place of assembly.

Doherty: means obstructive or hurtful.

Doyle: the "dark foreigner," and is thought to be Norse in origin.

Duffy: comes from an Irish name meaning black or swarthy.

Dunne: From the Irish for brown (donn), the original

Farrell: a personal name which means man of valor

Fitzgerald: the name means son of Gerald) was the uncrowned King of Ireland.

The name in Irish is spelt Mac Gearailt.

Flynn: This name comes from Flann, meaning red or ruddy complexion.

Gallagher: Gallchobhar means foreign help.

Johnston

Hayes

Healy

Hughes

Kelly

Kennedy

Lynch

MacCarthy: The family took its name from the 11th century

lord CᲴhach, meaning the loving one.

Maguire: In Irish, this name is Mag Uidhir, meaning pale colored.

Mahony: name means bear

Martin

Moore

Murphy: Derived from the Irish Gaelic, means sea warrior.

Murray

Nolan: means noble or famous

O'Brien:

O'Donnell

O'Neill: The O Neills were one of three royal Irish familes;

the name came from King Nial, who was killed fighting the Vikings in AD 919.

The name is the same in English and Irish, and means champion.

Reilly : Descendants of the O Conor kings of Connacht,

they took their name from a soldier named

Ragheallach (rag means race, ceallach means gregarious).

Ryan:

Quinn: From Ceann, the Irish word for head)

Shea: The name O Shea means dauntless.

Smith

Sullivan: Derived from the Irish Gaelic, Ӡ S򩬬eabhᩮ.

Suil amhᩮ means one eye, or possibly hawk-eye.

Sweeney: From the Irish for pleasant.

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