Last name: LOONEY
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LOONEY : This last name is indexed 30,308 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LOONEY : Irish (Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luanaigh ‘descendant of Luanach’ a personal name derived from luan ‘warrior’. Compare Lane 3 and Lamb 3. Woulfe distinguishes the Munster name Ó Luanaigh from the Ulster name Ó Luinigh whence Lunney. However many of the Anglicized forms are the same.
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