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The sullivan Surname

sullivan Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced form of O’Sullivan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Súileabháin ‘descendant of Súileabhán’, a personal name composed of the elements súil ‘eye’ + dubh ‘black’, ‘dark’ + the diminutive suffix -án.

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sullivan Family Facts

Distribution of sullivan Families in the US in 1920
Number of sullivan families
 3690-7377
 1231-3689
 1-1230
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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