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The moriarty Surname

moriarty Name Meaning and History

Irish (Kerry): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muircheartaigh ‘descendant of Muircheartach’, a personal name composed of the elements muir ‘sea’ + ceardach ‘skilled’, i.e. ‘skilled navigator’. A Meath and Monaghan name of the same form is Anglicized as Murtagh.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the moriarty family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of moriarty Families in the US in 1920
Number of moriarty families
 229-455
 77-228		 1-76
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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