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Connelly
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Origin Of The Surname Connelly
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Meaning Of The Surname Connelly
Descendant of the Hound of Bravery
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Connelly
Connelly is an Anglicisation of the Old Gaelic surname O’Conghaile. The prefixed ‘O’ denotes that the name is patronymic, the ‘Conghaile’ element being a Gaelic first name meaning ‘Hound of Bravery’. Therefore the surname means ‘Descendant of the Hound of Bravery’. Gaelic patronymic surnames were usually given to pass down the name of a clan chieftain or a revered elder. Jennifer Connelly the American actress is a famous bearer of this surname. |
Connelly Statistics
Connelly is the number 806 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 12,248 share the surname Connelly in the UK.
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