Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Munster) : reduced form of O’Slattery, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Slat(ar)ra ‘descendant of Slatra’, a byname meaning ‘robust’, ‘strong’, ‘bold’.

Famous people with this last name

John Slattery

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