Raftery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Irish.

Word forms

Raftery Rafterys

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Reachtabhra (“son of Reachtabhra”), a personal name which derives from reacht (“decree”).

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