Last name: DEMPSEY
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DEMPSEY : This last name is indexed 88,919 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DEMPSEY : Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Díomasaigh ‘descendant of Díomasach’ a byname meaning ‘proud haughty’ from díomas ‘pride’. The name was occasionally Anglicized as Proudman (see Proud). Compare McGimsey.
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