O'Hara

Gaelic family name

O'Hara is an Irish surname meaning "descendant of Eaghra." It appears in notable figures across literature and entertainment—Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine of *Gone with the Wind*; John O'Hara, the American novelist; Maureen O'Hara, the Irish-American actress.

The apostrophe marks the Gaelic patronymic prefix, anglicized from Ó.

Irish-surname

Gaelic

Celtic linguistic tradition

  • CelticOf Irish-Welsh descent
  • clanRelated group sharing ancestry
  • ancestryFamily line of descent

genealogy · shamrock · emerald · Dublin · Eire · Hibernia · brogue · O'Reilly · O'Connor · McCarthy

literary-character

Scarlett

Intense red color

Margaret Mitchell · antebellum · Southern belle · plantation · Atlanta · Civil War · reconstruction · Confederacy · ballgown · Georgia

notable-figures

poet

Writer of verse

The Quiet Man · New Yorker · Irish-American · celebrity

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celtic origin

O'HaraMacDonald

Patronymic from Donald

McGregor · Campbell · Stewart · McTavish · Bruce

ethnic/national surname origin

O'HaraSmith

Ubiquitous English surname

Jones · Williams · Schmidt · Müller · Rossi

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