The English-language surname Healy is in use by three separate ancestral lines of people from Ireland.

When Irish people began to anglicise their names, two separate clans adopted the English-language surname of "Healy". There was the Ó hÉilidhe clan from Connaught and the Ó hÉalaighthe clan from Munster.[citation needed]

Many different spellings of the surname exist including Haly, Haley, Haily, Healey, Hely, O'Healey and O'Haly.

Notable people with the surname Healy

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