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Whats your surname in irish?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Poll Dubh


    Would love to post my name as gaelige but don't know what it is :( if anyone can post what the Irish version of Bowes is, maybe i can find some stuff about it :)

    [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bowes = Ó Buadhaigh[/FONT]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 IrishKing


    dlofnep wrote: »
    You all come from dlofnep's homeland. My little children!

    Irishking, it may come from O'Mahoney/Ó Maonaigh or whatever.. But I doubt that Maney is an Irish name in itself - Most likely an anglecized version of an Irish name. I know a few O'Mahoney's in Waterford, so they may be derived from here.

    Anyways, back on topic - My surname is Ó Briain, or Ua Briain in even older Irish :P
    Im sure Maney is anglecized form of an older Irish name. I looked last night and saw this,that the O Maonaigh, O Maine,O Mainey,Manny,Maney and O Mahoney and O Mooney all came from one original source,the original Gaelic O'hEachtighearna,,I cant even say that much less know if this is the original source. Some other names were from this one as well,O Mine, O Mane and so on. So who knows I guess lolo but its still fun and thanks for any input. Oh yeah I am Martin,Maney and Killian from Ireland and one grandmother McGreggor from Scotland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Poll Dubh wrote: »
    Bowes = Ó Buadhaigh
    Excellent stuff that !!! cheers :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭aine92


    Aine Ni Hifearnan

    Aine of the demon!!


    HOLY GOD!!:eek::(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Ó Dubhthaigh -- Descendant of Dubhthach


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Niocha

    forget how to put fada on top of i :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭KingLoser


    Reid = O'Maoildearg from O'Mulreddy

    Originally from Ulster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭session savage


    Seán Ó Catháin -
    Ó Catháin means 'of the battle'. Cath is the Irish word for battle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Caitriona Ni Bhraonáin. Catherine of the sorrows..great.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    De Cuirtís - no idea what it means :confused: An old primary school teacher told me the "De" part means my surname is derived from French, but I don't know if that's true or not.

    My friend has a surname Mac an Allaigh (sp? It's McNally in English) and it means "Son of the poor man"!! Not a particularly nice surname to have, is it? :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,403 ✭✭✭DenMan


    Hi there

    My surname is Sherry. I have been told that my surname in Irish is Searraigh or Mac/O'Searraigh. Is this right? It is not an overly popular surname. Is the feminine equivalent Ni?

    This is a handy website, just key in your surname and see if there is an Irish equivalent of it.

    Den

    http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    DenMan wrote: »
    Hi there

    My surname is Sherry. I have been told that my surname in Irish is Searraigh or Mac/O'Searraigh. Is this right? It is not an overly popular surname. Is the feminine equivalent Ni?

    This is a handy website, just key in your surname and see if there is an Irish equivalent of it.

    Den

    http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/

    Thanks for linking that website - I found out my name means "well educated" :D
    Also, I found out that in 1848-64 there were only 13 households with my name in Cork (6 in the County, 7 in the city) but there were 41 in Louth! I might have a lot of distant relatives up there...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 Ceoltoirin


    Ní Mhocáire as in Earley

    Sometimes there are interesting pronunciations on this. I remember going to the gaeltacht in Galway when I was 13. Very shy and didn't want to be made stand out for anything.

    Didn't have a choice in the matter when the headmaster from Cork decided that Mh should be pronounced 'V'. When my name was then said in his very fast Cork accent I was forever known as

    " ******* wee f***er!!"

    Now I take great care when introducing myself to anyone through Irish to pronounce the Mh as a Woa, and when I found myself teaching years later I insisted that students call me by my first name to save all future embarassment!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭zynaps


    Ceoltoirin wrote: »
    Didn't have a choice in the matter when the headmaster from Cork decided that Mh should be pronounced 'V'. When my name was then said in his very fast Cork accent I was forever known as

    " ******* wee f***er!!"
    What a bheancair... these nicknames are undodgeable in secondary school. I feel your pain... My surname, Mac Fhearaí, where fh is always silent in Irish, morphed into the nickname "Farty" in Coláiste Mhuire (where 'mh' is pronounced 'w' ;)) due to some of the other 1st years coming from not-really-Irish-speaking primary schools :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 star-girlxx


    Sorcha Ni Ghearain- Sarah Guerin

    Im sure Ghearain just a bad translation from English though! If anyone knows what it means let me know!
    :):)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 IrishKing


    IrishKing wrote: »
    Hi, Im knew here, my family names are Maney and Martin from Ireland. I know Martin is a very common name in Ireland so the one Im really interested in is Maney. I see it maybe have been O Maonaigh but a lady in Ireland said it was probably O Mahoney? Any help on this would be great thank you very much. Richard
    Well to answer my own question lol, the OMaonaigh name has many variations so here go's. OMaonaigh,OManey,Maney,Manney,OMaine,Main,Maine, OMainy,Mainy,OMooney,Mooney,Meeny,OMeeny and many,many more. All these names are from one root source OMaonaigh.The names are pronounced differently depending what part of Ireland your in. But all came from OMaonaigh,Ive researched hundreds and hundreds of hours and finally!! Ive learned that alot of Irish names have many,many variations like ONeil or OKearney,both these names have a Bazillion variations like OMaonaigh.But I would like to thank Martin B Maney 1752-1830 County Wexford Republic of Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 Firey


    On another matter, seen as were talking Gaelic,
    I need to know what " My Precious Girl" is in Gaelic.

    Any helpers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭Redbhoy


    Mo Cáilín Iómhar?

    This is a literate translation.

    You may find that there is a different phrase to denote a 'precious girl'. Probably depends on context.
    i.e. a ghrá or a stór are some of the phrases used for a loved one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭the_wheel_turns


    Mac Ruaidhrí... ainm a úsáidtear go minic i mo chlann...

    as béarla... Rogers (gan "d")

    Mac Ruaidhrí = "son of the Red King"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭the_wheel_turns


    Firey wrote: »
    On another matter, seen as were talking Gaelic,
    I need to know what " My Precious Girl" is in Gaelic.

    Any helpers?

    mo chailín iómhar... mo chailín luachmhar...

    If it's someone close to you I'd stick with... "a stór" or "a ghrá"

    Mo Chailín, a stór = My precious girl


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 Supreemio


    ''Breandán De Brugha'' m'ainm i nGaeilge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭misslt


    Firey wrote: »
    On another matter, seen as were talking Gaelic,
    I need to know what " My Precious Girl" is in Gaelic.

    Any helpers?

    sílim gur chuala me gur ionann 'my precious girl' agus Mobhornín? Rud eigin mar sin!

    Is é 'Nic an tSagairt' an sloinne orm - daughter of the priest :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Stiofán Ni Ocha .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Mc Donagh - Meaning, Im a knacker. Well ok Im not a knacker.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭Barbieliveshere


    Sorcha Sinead Ni Chugain.....:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭cmcsoft


    Mac Amhlaoibh - son of Amhlaoibh, Amhlaoibh, was derived from the Old Norse Name Olaf


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 yobar


    Mac Aoidh, having something to do with Fire. Perhaps an ancestor was an arsonist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ohmygawd


    Is ainm Faran Ni Fhoghlu....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 IrishKing


    IrishKing wrote: »
    Well to answer my own question lol, the OMaonaigh name has many variations so here go's. OMaonaigh,OManey,Maney,Manney,OMaine,Main,Maine, OMainy,Mainy,OMooney,Mooney,Meeny,OMeeny and many,many more. All these names are from one root source OMaonaigh.The names are pronounced differently depending what part of Ireland your in. But all came from OMaonaigh,Ive researched hundreds and hundreds of hours and finally!! Ive learned that alot of Irish names have many,many variations like ONeil or OKearney,both these names have a Bazillion variations like OMaonaigh.But I would like to thank Martin B Maney 1752-1830 County Wexford Republic of Ireland.
    I also forgot Meaney Maney Mainey,and O Mainey and more then I can remember. And thanks again to Martin Maney 1752-1830


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭anladmór


    does gomes have an irish translation?:P


    one thing ive always wondereed, does Ni not translate to 'daughter of'?


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