as a Last Name
- 5,581
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Tighe
Meaning & Origins
Irish: 1. reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Taidhg ‘descendant of Tadhg’, a byname meaning ‘bard’, ‘poet’, ‘philosopher’. 2. In Ulster it is sometimes an Anglicization of Mac Taidhg, which is more commonly Anglicized as McCaig.
| 6,185th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,581
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Tighe per capita
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