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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : ornamental name from manni ‘man’ + the common surname suffix -nen.
  • Finnish : also from Swedish man or German Mann, either as an element of a soldier’s name or as a short form of a personal name such as Hermann or Emanuel.

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