Family name origins & meanings
- Irish (chiefly northern Ireland) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maol Mhaodhóg (also Ó Maolaodhóg) ‘descendant of the servant (devotee) of St. Maodhóg’. Compare Molloy.
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