Driscoll Family History
Driscoll Name Meaning
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEidirsceóil ‘descendant of the messenger’ from eidirsceól ‘go-between interpreter intermediary news bearer’ (a compound of eidir ‘between’ + scéal ‘story news’). Bearers of this Irish surname claim descent from a single 10th-century ancestor.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022