Murphys – you win the prize for most common last name in Ireland, especially in County Cork. This surname, which means “sea battler,” translates to Irish as MacMurchadh (son of Murchadh ...

Murphys – you win the prize for the most common last name in Ireland, especially in County Cork. This surname, which means “sea battler,” translates to Irish as MacMurchadh (son of ...

More info Pop star Rihanna may be descended from residents of Co ... Irish who were transported to Barbados after the Cromwellian Conquest, Cork Beo reports. The name Fenty comes from the surname ...

The origin of more than 45,000 surnames has been revealed by a team ... of 45,600 most frequent family names in Britain and Ireland. They found that nearly 40,000 family names are native to ...