Dorrity (surname)
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Soundex: D630
Origins
Irish. Reduced (simplified) and Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochartaigh ‘descendant of Dochartach’, a byname from do + cartach ‘not loving’. The family were chieftains in Donegal.
Variations
Some of these names are simply spelling variations while while others may have completely separate origins, ethnically and regionally.
- Doherty
- Docherty
