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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolagáin ‘descendant of Maolagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of maol ‘bald’, ‘tonsured’.
  • Irish : in some instances, a variant of Mollohan.

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