The manning Surname
manning Name Meaning and History
- English: patronymic from Mann 1 and 2.
- Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Mainnín ‘descendant of Mainnín’, probably an assimilated form of Mainchín, a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced Ó Maingín and Anglicized as Mangan.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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