O'Meehan Family Crest & Name History

Search old registers for O'Meehan and you will soon meet Meehan too.

The name is generally explained as “Little honoured one”. O'Meehan simply joins the particle O' to Meehan, a habit common in Irish naming. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms. The same family of names includes Meighan.

O'Meehan coat of arms

Arms linked to Meehan and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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