Given name & surname

O'connor

O'Connor is a surname from Irish.

Original IrishÓ Conchúir

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

O'Connor comes from Irish.

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How it developed

From Irish Ó Conchúir.

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O'connor’s family of names

In English usage, O'connor as a surname has a related form in O'Conner. In English usage, O'connor as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Irish form Ó Conchúir. In English usage, O'connor as a surname was borrowed from the Irish form Ó Conchúir.

Walk O'connor’s family in the name graph

O'connorConnorO'ConnerÓ ConchúirО’Коннор

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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