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Irish Names

How naming works in Ireland — order, inheritance, particles, and the names Foundry's own data sees most often, backed by a live parser.

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Common names in Ireland

The given and family names Foundry sees most often for Ireland, each shown with its share of what Foundry has learned — not an official statistic, just what the engine's own data reflects.

Given names

  1. John 2.03%
  2. Mary 1.56%
  3. David 1.21%
  4. Paul 1.17%
  5. Michael 1.16%
  6. Sean 0.84%
  7. Mark 0.81%
  8. Brian 0.74%
  9. Sarah 0.73%
  10. Stephen 0.7%

Family names

  1. Murphy 1.65%
  2. Byrne 1.11%
  3. Walsh 0.98%
  4. Doyle 0.72%
  5. Obrien 0.59%
  6. Smith 0.52%
  7. Lynch 0.52%
  8. Oconnor 0.49%
  9. Dunne 0.49%
  10. Murray 0.48%

Naming conventions in Ireland

Many Irish surnames are anglicized forms of Gaelic patronymic constructions.

Ó

"grandson/descendant of"

Ó Briain → O'Brien (descendant of Brian)

Mac

"son of"

Mac Cárthaigh → McCarthy (son of Cárthach)

Foundry treats the O'/Mac/Mc prefix as part of the family name, not a separate particle -- unlike "von" or "van".

Analyze name from Ireland

Split full names from Ireland into given name, family name, titles, and particles — calibrated confidence instead of a single guess, powered by Foundry.

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This page is one view onto Foundry's Name Intelligence engine, fixed to the Ireland context. For the full feature list, how it works, and other countries, see Name Intelligence.

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