Last name: MOLLOY
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MOLLOY : This last name is indexed 66,263 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MOLLOY : Irish:: 1: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuaidh ‘descendant of Maolmhuadh’ a personal name based on maol ‘youth chieftain’ and muad ‘noble glorious’.2: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maol Aodha ‘descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Aodh’ (see McHugh).3: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maol Mhaodhóg ‘descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Maodhóg’ a hypocoristic of Aodh ‘fire’. See Logue.
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