Doherty Family History
Doherty Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochartaigh
‘descendant of Dochartach’, a byname from do +
cartach ‘not loving’. The family were chieftains in Donegal.
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Name Distribution of Doherty Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Doherty families
 792 - 1,581  265 - 791 |
 1 - 264  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Doherty families
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458 - 914 153 - 457 |
1 - 152 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Doherty families
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120 - 238 41 - 119 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Doherty Family Origin
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