Etymology

Tarpey

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

Irish Ó Tarpaigh
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  1. Irish · derived fromÓ Tarpaigh“descendant of Tarpach”
  2. English todayTarpey

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Tarpaigh (“descendant of Tarpach”), a byname from torpach (“pot-bellied”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.