O'Hickey Family Crest & Name History

Some records give Hickey; others give O'Hickey. Both point to the same Irish family name. The family name meaning is “Descendant of the healer”, the same as for Hickey. The O' in front of the name is a particle that was often added to Hickey on registers. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

The same family of names includes Hickie and Hickee.

Arms linked to Hickey and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the O'Hickey family name pack.