Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish: one of the very few Irish surnames derived from a place
name, namely Athy in county Kildare, Gaelic Áth í ‘ford
of the yew tree’. This was adopted by Norman settlers in Ireland in
the form de Athy, which was re-Gaelicized as Ataoi and
borne by one of the ‘tribes of Galway’, who first settled in
Co. Kildare about 1300.
- English: variant spelling of
Athey.
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