as a Last Name
- 5,331
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for 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.
| 6,454th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,331
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Hampshire
- has the most people named Sheehy per capita
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