Manna

Family name origins & meanings

• Southern Italian : topographic name from Sicilian manna ‘ash tree’.
• Southern Italian : from a feminine form of Manno.
• Southern Italian : possibly from La Manna, with loss of the definite article, from Old Italian Alamanna ‘Germania’.
• Dutch : from a personal name derived from the Germanic personal name Man(n)hard, composed of the elements mann ‘man’, ‘human’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.