Smith (surname) usage has passed into "Smitty" being used as a surname itself. Other languages with different words for the occupation of "smith" or "blacksmith" also produced surnames based on that root. Words derived from the Latin term for smith (literally "one who works with iron"), such as the Italian words "fabbro" and "ferraio", are the root of last names common in several parts of Europe. In Ireland and Scotland, the word for smith, "gobha", is found in the surname "MacGouren"/"MacGouran"/"MacGowan"/"McGowan". This surname is an Anglicised form of "Mac a' Ghobhainn" (Scottish Gaelic), "Mac Gabhann" (Irish), meaning "son of the smith". In
O'Hare (surname) an English surname, or at least an English version of their Irish surname, therefore many removed the 'Mac' or 'O' from their surname. However The O'Hehir and O'Hare families did not drop the 'O', nor did they adopt an English version of their surnames. As a result, they would have had to endure extreme hardship and suffering because of such opposition. (The creation of societies such as the Gaelic League in the late 19th Century resulted in the widespread resumption of the 'Mac' and 'O' prefixes to many Irish surnames.) People with the surname O'Hare: O'Hare (surname) "'O'Hare" is the