O'Corrigan: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

O'Corrigan is best understood alongside Corrigan: both are Irish spellings of a single family name. With its O' prefix, O'Corrigan keeps Corrigan intact and marks belonging in the older style. The family name meaning is “Descendant of Corragán ("spear")”, the same as for Corrigan. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

The same family of names includes Carrigan and Courigan.

There is no single O'Corrigan family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Get the complete O'Corrigan report, with a museum-style coat of arms.