Last name: MONAHAN
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MONAHAN : This last name is indexed 34,342 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MONAHAN : Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Manacháin ‘descendant of Manachán’ a personal name representing a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. See also Monk. The Gaelic name is sometimes interpreted as if it were Ó Muineacháin ‘descendant of the little shrubbery’ and is sometimes translated into English as Thornton. The name is also found in Scotland.
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