Meaning & origin
What it means
Horan goes back to Irish Ó hUghróin, meaning “descendant of Ughrón.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Ó hUghróin (“descendant of Ughrón”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Horan’s family of names
In English usage, Horan as a surname has a related form in Odran.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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