Last name: SHANAHAN
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Last name frequency
SHANAHAN : This last name is indexed 34,806 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SHANAHAN : Irish (Tipperary and Limerick): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanacháin or Mac Seanacháin ‘descendant of Seanachán’ a diminutive of Seanach a personal name from sean ‘ancient old’.
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