The berrigan Surname
berrigan Name Meaning and History
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beirgin or Ó
Meirgin, a variant of Ó hAimheirgin ‘descendant of
Aimheirgin’, a personal name in early Irish mythology and
historical tales, perhaps composed of the elements amhra
‘wonderful’ + gin ‘birth’. (The Gaelic pronunciation would have
an extra vowel between the r and the g, as shown in the
Anglicized spelling.)
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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