Conaghan: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Arms linked to Conyngham and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Conaghan

Search old registers for Conaghan and you will soon meet Conyngham too. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “From Cunninghame (Ayrshire)”.

Records show Conaghan as one of the forms Conyngham took over time. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. About 276 people in the United States were recorded as Conaghan in 2010, placing it 70,833 on the national list. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.

Get the complete Conaghan report, with a museum-style coat of arms.