Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Agneaux in
Manche, France.
- Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Gnímh ‘descendant of Gníomh’, a byname
meaning ‘action’ or ‘activity’. The Ó Gnímhs were hereditary
poets to a branch of the O’Neills; in this family the traditional
pronunciation is with the stress on the second syllable.
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