Last name: MOYNIHAN

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MOYNIHAN : This last name is indexed 22,438 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

MOYNIHAN : Irish:: 1: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muimhneacháin ‘descendant of Muimhneachán’ a diminutive of the byname Muimhneach ‘Munsterman’ i.e. someone belonging to the province of Munster. In Mayo this surname has sometimes been translated into English as Munster. There has been some confusion with Monaghan.2: variant of Monaghan. The Anglicized forms of this name can be indistinguishable from 1.

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