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15th Apr 2016

Here are the 10 most popular Irish surnames from around the world

Paul Moore

Is your surname here?

There are over 6.3m Irish people living in the 32 counties but as we all know, this is just a brief snippet of the global population that claim to have direct links to the Emerald Isle.

The very talented people at Painted Clans have conducted some research on the the 80m people that claim to have Irish lineage and they’ve uncovered the most popular surnames for the Irish diaspora that are living abroad.

That’s not all though because they’ve also disclosed the actual meaning of some of these names. Did anyone else know that every single Ryan in the world is a ‘little king’?

Take a look.

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Ireland