Last name: MOON
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MOON : This last name is indexed 148,580 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MOON : 1: Irish: variant of Mohan.2: English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce.3: Americanized form of German Mohn or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.4: Korean: variant of Mun 1.5: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 文 (see Wen 2) 萬 (see Wan 1) and 滿 (see Man 1).6: Chinese: possibly from a Cantonese pronunciation of the Chinese name 滿 (meaning ‘full complete’) a monosyllabic personal name or part of a disyllabic personal name of some early Chinese immigrants in the US.
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