Etymology

Sharkey

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Irish Ó Searcaigh
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromÓ Searcaigh“descendant of Searcach”
  2. English todaySharkey

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Searcaigh (“descendant of Searcach”), from searcach (“beloved”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.