Moon Family History
- Moon Name Meaning
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mocháin (see Mohan). English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Moyon in La Manche, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Modius (from Latin modus ‘measure’) + the locative suffix -o (genitive -onis). English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French moun ‘monk’ (see Monk). Cornish: nickname for a slender person, from Cornish mon ‘thin’. Korean: variant of Mun.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,822,618 Historical Documents with Moon on Ancestry
- 517,951 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 350,501 Census and Voter Lists
- 57,682 Military Records
- 26,562 Immigration Records
- 869,922 Member Trees
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Number of Moon families
 370 - 737  124 - 369 |
 1 - 123  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Moon families
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39 - 76 14 - 38 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Moon census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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