Last name: IRISH
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IRISH : This last name is indexed 41,160 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
IRISH : English and Irish (Kilkenny): ethnic name for someone of Irish origin from Old French Ireis or Middle English Irish ‘Irish’ Latinized as Hiberniens(is). Compare Ireland.
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