Etymology

Horan

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Today it means: A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic]. Full definition →

Irish Ó hUghróin
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The story

  1. Irish · borrowed fromÓ hUghróin“descendant of Ughrón”
  2. English todayHoran

Anglicized form of Irish Ó hUghróin (“descendant of Ughrón”) or Ó hOdhráin (“descendant of Odhrán”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.