Last name: SHEEHAN
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Last name frequency
SHEEHAN : This last name is indexed 114,435 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SHEEHAN : Irish (Cork): shortened form of O'Sheehan an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Síodhacháin ‘descendant of Síodhachán’ a personal name representing a diminutive of síodhach ‘peaceful’ the same word as sítheach. Compare Sheehy.
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