Frequency of Irish Surnames (1890s)
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2018
- Researching your Irish ancestors? One of the big challenges is that repetitive nature of Irish names. Our ancestors just weren't too creative.
In this video, I take a look at an 1894 study of surnames in Ireland. Data visualization tools at the time were pretty weak, but you can do lots of fun stuff today. And considering some of the records the 1894 study relied on were destroyed in the Irish Civil War, it's even harder to replicate.
If you like the map, there's an interactive version at mikeoneill.us/irish-surnames/
I am in California and related to 5 Johns. My brother, my father, his father, his father and his father. My ancestor that came here was from County Cork.
Thank you .
My paternal grandmother was born in Tulla in county Clare. Her maiden name was a Maloney. There are some O'Neill's in that part of the family tree. A number of ancestors from Tulla ended up in New Zealand.
Catharine O'Neill was my great, great Grandma who was married to my great, great Grandpa Michael O'Swords -- both from Ireland. They both came to Welland, Ontario, Canada in the 1800 century. Nice to met you Mike O'Neill. Danny Weasner from Welland, Ontario, Canada. My x-girlfriend was named Betty Ann Byrne, and my Daughter by her is Bri. Weasner. Betty Ann Byrne was of Ojibway and Irish descent..
I am in Australia and my grandmother's maiden name on my Mum's side of the family tree is Ryan and her father Michael Ryan in the 1800s was born in Ireland. When I wondered how he got out here I did an initial search for passenger lists of ships that came out here and saw so many Michael Ryan's it was like looking for a needle in haystack so dead end. Do not even know what exact year he came out here so no chance of making headway. There is other surnames on my father's side of family tree with surnames like Collins and Kennedy too, so quickly would learn it hard to go back to ancestors in Ireland in past to learn more. All I know is about three quarters of my ancestors come from Ireland and I know of one ancestor that came out here in the mid 1840s from Scotland so that the only ancestor from overseas where can go a little further back in census records in Scotland.
What an interesting video! I’m curious as to what map source you’re using here… the ability to toggle between surnames is so cool and I would love to try it out if it’s available online. Thanks so much!
it's been a while so i don't recall all the details. but i used PowerBI and found a map in the PowerBI store
I have some Burke ancestry .My maternal Gg parents on my dad’s side were Burkes. They helped settle Tazewell ct Virginia.
Family: Ó’Diamain (anglicized Diamond) and in America changed to Dismond through Ellis Island.
"If you have an Irish surname you're descended from royalty"
My Irish name is Gilmartin
Yes
I am a Flynn and damned proud of it.
If Chieftains with pre-medieval petty kingdoms who measured wealth in cattle can still be considered royalty by modern standards.
@@cigh7445 yes. They can
You mentioned and I saw alot of the surnames I'm researching!
I'm a Kennedy
I'm researching my DNA matching with the last names and surnames : Mclaughlin, mcleod, Mclendon Kelly/Kelly, Gallagher, Martin, ect.
I have Kennedy as a surname in my tree, and that name continues in some of my distant relatives, but since it was my 2nd great grandmother's surname, it stopped there in my line. I also have Kelly in there too, but again more distantly. My 2nd great grandmother came from County Limerick if that helps.
It's great, though, when you run into less common names, like Sugrue, because some of the small 'clans' lived in one area for a long time. Sugrue, for example, is mostly found in county Kerry with some in Cork. But mostly Kerry. If your ancestors married in Ireland with a less common name it can help you focus your search for the other surname in the marriage.
Hello my name is Daniel O’connell and we have the sugrue surname in our family. We came from cershlovien in kerry. We are O’connell sugrue and qusack .Sorry for my spelling.
@@danocable I'm not sure where they lived. I start with my gr-grandfather Jeremiah Shea/Shay who was born in 1857. His parents were Patrick Shea/Shay (~1818-1896) and Eleanor/Ellen Driscoll (1819-1912). Patrick's parents were listed as Patrick Shea and Katie Sugrue on his (the younger Patrick's) NY death certificate. It's all I have at the moment. Eleanor's parents were Jeremiah Driscoll and Mary Barry. 1857 is before civil registration and I haven't found a baptism yet. I did find 2 baptisms in Sneem that might be Jeremiah's younger siblings Mary and Patrick. The names of the parents are 'right' but the years are off by 2 or 3. I just can't prove it's them. Then, the 2 younger girls are not listed in that parish at all.
Hi, I was wondering if you happen to know how to pronounce Kilgareth? It was my family member's maiden name when she came to the US during the Famine according to like a wedding document or something out here. She seems to have changed it to Garvey later on and I just looked at origins of that name and somehow its from Gairbheith, which makes sense for the "gareth" part of Kilgareth, but now I'm just more confused. Do you know how to pronounce Gairbheith? Wish I could find records prior to them coming over (her husband was Adams, but if even this was transliterated then even records in Ireland or ships manifests could be way different). Now that I have the Gairbheith I can try a ships manifest thing with that, because the other one never worked out. They got married out here and as far as I know didn't travel together (if I found the correct Adams).
You’ll be happy to know that the “kill” in Kilgareth isn’t related to killing, but is derived from the old Irish for church or place with a church! I’d pronounce Gairbheith as “Gar-veh”. The letter v isn’t used in Irish, so the sound is written as bh or mh. The i in Gair is only there because of the rule (caol le caol agus leathan le leathan) about not mixing narrow (e, i) and broad (a, o, u) on either side of a consonant, so it doesn’t impact the pronunciation. The “th” is is an aspiration, so not pronounced like a th in English.
My husband's maternal side of the family has a bunch of Gallaghers and they were from County Donegal and his mother is first generation in the U.S. My maternal Irish grandparents were the ones who were first generation and they met and married in the U.S. My grandmother was from County Down and she was Hughes, my maternal grandfather was from County Galway and he was Holland, his mother was Rabbitte ( alt.: Rabbitt, Rabbit). I know Hughes is very common, I'm not sure about the others.
My father's paternal and maternal sides came from Arranmore Island, County Donegal. In addition to McCafferty, I have a lot of Gallagher, O'Donnell, Dunlevy and Greene in my family tree.
@@tommccafferty5591 I haven't gone very far into my husband's tree, but from what I have done, I see some Gallagher and O'Donnell names. His mom grew up in County Donegal and her maiden name was Devine.
Hi, my 2nd great grandmother’s surname, shortly after arriving in the US, was recorded by a US census taker as McAlhuse, and McAllhuse another year. There is no such name. I wonder if you know how to apply an Irish brogue to that name to let me know what that name really is. Thank you!
McAlleese
My last name is Ferrel, which is to my understanding a surname for O'Fearghail. It was most popular in County Longford. Or so I've read. Maybe u can help me out with some information? Thanks
It's probably a misspelling of Farrell given it's Gaelic version
As a Mulhatton, I am proud of my association with Ireland.
I’m a MacCormack father from Dublin mother from islands of Samoa,MacCormack means charioteer.
I used to know some O'Neills on Long Island and my Dr. Was an O"Neill and my Grandfather was a John F. Kennedy
I have a Barbara Bush that's like a second cousin.
My name is Greene. My dad said it was a peasant name? Not sure what that means. Grandparents Greene came over from Ireland and added the e on the end.
My neighbour could not see his surname in the cover photo. Although it is the same as the famous Dublin tea.
My Family has a plethora of John, James, Mary and Margaret's seems every McMullan sibling used these same names for centuries
It was almost obligatory. The first son was named after the father’s father, the second son after the mother’s father, the first daughter after the paternal grandmother, the next after the maternal grandmother. After that it was family who had died young.
One new mother decided to buck the trend and choose a name she liked. Sadly the “misnamed” child died as a baby and this was blamed on the mother’s choice.
My Mum was the tenth child and very disgruntled that she was named after a young woman who fell out of an upper floor window and died.
Interesting he said Mary O'Neill
According to what I've been able to gather,my name is ranked 70th most common in Ireland.
That includes,about 4 different variations of spelling.
Do you have one on Welsh surnames ?
I have wondered if my husbands last name Hough was scottish Irish or maybe German
My family name was Kidney. I hated it. It is mainly around the Cork or Cobh area I believ
I found my Dad`s ancestors in Cork easy enough mate
McArdle i want to find relatives co armagh i think
Your last statement is true, but a county is a big place, you need to narrow it down to a town, or even better a townland. Even then if the name is a very common first and last name you might still have problems identifying individuals as many brothers and sisters when they had children named them after their parents and siblings. Just having a county isn't enough. Counties in Ireland were not like those in the US, they are more like States (obviously the populations are smaller, but they are bigger than most US counties).
My surname before marriage is Hogan . Do you know much about that name ?
I was a Walsh before I married a Smith and I was told some of our family came from County Cork. I was raised Catholic, my dad’s mother had a English father who married a Catholic girl. And she married a man named Walsh who was from a Catholic father who married a Protestant girl. They all raised their children Catholic and it worked out that my dad was a 50/50 Irish and English ancestry. My mom only knew of French and Swedish blood and when she married my Catholic father she joined the church and they raised their children Catholic. I married a man who mother was full blood French Catholic whose parents immigrated from the French Canadian people to America and they were Catholic and his father had German blood and I don’t know what other ancestry and they we’re Wesleyan Methodist and his family was very angry that he married a Catholic and his mother said because he did that that she was going to hell and in fact all 3 other children married Catholics who raised their children Catholic. We all worship Jesus and I think it is up to Him who goes to Heaven. I’m not going to condemn anybody religion it is a personal choice. But I do find it interesting how people spread out and intermarry. I was named Patricia.
Try "John Kelly"! Aggghhh!
You would think the name Luck would be easy. Never was able to find exactly where my ancestors came from. Just know it was Ireland.
I’m a Casiday or Cassidy
Yup d byrnes
I have an ancestor couple Patrick & Bridget Casey ... rip
Were they from Cork? My great grandmother was a Casey.
Mcdermott
I am Murphy .
Murphy s they get good at thar jobs .
my name is Mary Murphy and there are most likely hundreds
The lack of originality carried over after the Irish moved to the U.S. My Grandfather was named Patrick Colvin and he lived in a small farming community in south - west Indiana. He had a first cousin with the same name! and they lived less than 5 miles away from each other. They took to calling my grandfather "Red Pat" because he had reddish hair and his cousin was known as "Black Pat" because of his black hair. Michael is an insanely overused first name also and has driven me and my wife nuts trying to trace ancestors in Ireland. Could be worse, in Germany, Germanic regions, if a child died and they had another child of the same sex they frequently named the second child the same name!
There are Irish protestant's who went to the states as well
Harry Williamson Most of them would have english and scottish names ,there would have been some conversions ,but generally if your protestant in ireland your ancestors are from britain and will have names derived from the english language not anglicised gaelic and norman french names.
@@galoglaich3281 so did people with English names even De Velera had a Norman English name
@@harry9392 No De valera is a spanish name as his father was spanish.Many irish names like reynolds,bradley,jennings and kingston though they appear english are actually anglicisations of old gaelic names although they are actually english names aswell however in ireland they are usually anglicisations.There were a few cromwellian soldiers who integrated into the native population and converted to catholicism with names like cooper and sayers,but generally catholics have either gaelic surnames or gaelicised norman names and protestants have english and lowland scots names.
Brennan s here☘️
My mom OBrien, McCaffrey, Conktion
I'm Mccaffrey
GrtGrandfather francis Dillon
Moran
Love ware I came from.
County Cork ?
Anyone else have the surname Boland on their tree? It’s apparently an Irish surname that I carry. My great grandfathers dad was from Ireland and was a Boland so i assume it actually is Irish.
Kaden Elijah I am a boland .They are actually two branches the one in the northwest and one in the south around co.clare and they are not related
@@galoglaich3281 My Boland ancestors hail from different places in Munster. Any more info on this southern branch would be appreciated
@@kadenelijah9329 I from sligo and my father was from mayo so i am from the northern family so i don't know much about the munster branch sorry.Apart from their link to the O' Brien clan whose progenitor was high king Brian Boru .
@@galoglaich3281 Ah actually i went through my ancestry tree and it turns out my side of the Boland’s originated in county Mayo, but just further back then i thought, what info do you have on that branch if you don’t mind me asking?
@@kadenelijah9329 It s getting late here i will get back to you tomorrow
My surename is shields
I've got the same name in my dad's maternal line. Shiel is another variant: it's pretty common for people drop letters the end over time. :-)
A few things not wholly correct .The attack on the four courts just completed the destruction of the records ,the process started a year earlier in the war of independence when rebels attacked the custom house and many records were destroyed in the ensuing fire .In the description you say our ancestors were not very creative in terms of names ,which means you are totally ignorant of the fact that most of these names originated in gaelic and names like O' Bhraonain and Mcbranain became Brennan when anglicised which had nothing to do with the irish thats the way the english recorded the names.
Dillon
Is Surname MARTIN IRISH ?
Yes
Is Franken O' Bergmansteinowitz Irish ?
Blossom Joseph it would if it was o' fearshliabhnaclocha which is nearly as long