Tully Family History
Tully Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Taithligh ‘descendant of Taithleach’ a byname meaning ‘quiet peaceable’. Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maol Tuile ‘descendant of the devotee of the will of God’ (from toil ‘will [of God]’). Alternatively by misinterpreting tuile as the homonym meaning ‘flood’ the surname has often been Anglicized as Flood . English (mainly northern): variant of Tolley . Scottish: variant of Tullie .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022