Manning Family History

Irish (Cork and Kerry): 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. English: from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Manning.

North German and Dutch: habitational name from a farm so named once in possession of a certain Manno (see Mann) and his kin.

American shortened and altered form of Finnish Manninen.