- 4,799
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Sheehy
Meaning & Origins
Irish (Munster): reduced form of McSheehy, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Síthigh‘son of Sítheach’, a personal name from the adjective sítheach ‘peaceful’ or ‘otherworldly’. (The noun síth, from which this adjective derives, means basically ‘settlement’, hence both ‘peace’ and ‘place inhabited by otherworld beings’.) In some cases the name may be a reduced Anglicized form of Ó Síthigh, ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a later form of the Irish name.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,799
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Sheehy per capita
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