masculine Dorsey

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Origin:
irish (gaelic)
Name Root:
(d'Arcy) (O Dorchaidhe)
Meaning:*
This name derives from the English surname, which derives from the Norman French “D’Arcy,” the French form from Arcy’s village in La Manche, Normandy. In this case, the name would refer to “one from Arcy.” Darcy (D’Arcy-O Dorchaidhe) ‘descendant of Dorchaidhe’ (dark-man, the dark one, dark-haired one). One family bearing the name d’Arcy arrived in Ireland in the early 14th century from England and settled in the country’s southeast. The other, the O Dorchaidhe, a clan who lived in county Mayo and eventually entered Galway’s town in 1595. The English translated Their name into O Dorsey and then Darcy. It is now nearly everywhere anglicized Darcy or D’Arcy, which disguises the Irish origin of the family.

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