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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mongáin ‘descendant of Mongán’, originally a byname for someone with a luxuriant head of hair (from mong ‘hair’, ‘mane’), borne by families from Connacht, County Limerick, and Tyrone. It is also a Huguenot name, traced back to immigrants from Metz.
  • Irish : see Manning.
  • English (of Norman origin) : nickname for a glutton, from Old French manger ‘to eat’.
  • English : occupational name from old Spanish mangón ‘small trader’.

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