Millerick Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Millerick Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Millerick

The ancient history of the name Millerick was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Variants of the Irish name Millerick include Milerick, Milericke, Mellerick, Melerick, Mellericke, Mullerick and many others. This name is derived from the Gaelic Ó'Maoilgheric sept name which is thought to mean 'devote of Saint Cyriacus'. It was not at all uncommon in ancient Ireland for surnames to be adapted to honor Saints. Saint Cyriacus was a fourth century martyr and is one of twenty-seven Saints who bear the name. When Gaelic names were anglicized during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they were often changed to Anglo equivalents that sounded most like their original Gaelic name. Millerick and its most often found variation of Mellerick are most associated with Cork in the very south of Ireland but also with the northern Counties of Connaught .