as a Last Name
- 23,171
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Driscoll
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEidirsceóil ‘descendant of the messenger’, from eidirsceól ‘go-between’, ‘intermediary’, ‘news bearer’ (a compound of eidir ‘between’ + scéal ‘story’, ‘news’). Bearers of this Irish surname claim descent from a single 10th-century ancestor.
| 1,315th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 23,171
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Driscoll per capita
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