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Updated March 27, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • Korean : From the moon; letters

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mocháin (see Mohan).
  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Moyon in La Manche, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Modius (from Latin modus ‘measure’) + the locative suffix -o (genitive -onis).
  • English : nickname from Anglo-Norman French moun ‘monk’ (see Monk).
  • Cornish : nickname for a slender person, from Cornish mon ‘thin’.
  • Korean : variant of Mun.

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