Monk Family History
- Monk Name Meaning
- English: nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance, or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from Middle English munk, monk ‘monk’ (Old English munuc, munec, from Late Latin monachus, Greek monakhos ‘solitary’, a derivative of monos ‘alone’). North German (Mönk) and Dutch: equivalent of 1, from Middle Low German monik, Middle Dutch moni(n)c, mun(i)c. Irish: translation of Gaelic Ó Muineaog (see Minogue) or Ó Manacháin (see Monahan). Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from Polish maka ‘flour’, ‘meal’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 822,244 Historical Documents with Monk on Ancestry
- 280,917 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 212,597 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,142 Military Records
- 14,207 Immigration Records
- 294,381 Member Trees
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Number of Monk families
 598 - 1,193  200 - 597 |
 1 - 199  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Monk families
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31 - 59 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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