Dilloughery

English

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhluachra (“descendant of Dubhluachra”), a personal name composed of the elements dubh (“black”) + luachair (“rushes; rushland”).

Proper noun

Dilloughery (plural Dillougherys)

1. A surname from Irish.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dilloughery is the 367833^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 43 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dilloughery”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 462.