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doherty Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochartaigh ‘descendant of Dochartach’, a byname from do + cartach ‘not loving’. The family were chieftains in Donegal.

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doherty Family Facts

Distribution of doherty Families in the US in 1920
Number of doherty families
 792-1581
 265-791
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