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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Indian (Andhra Pradesh); pronounced as two syllables : Hindu name, of unexplained etymology.
  • Dutch (De Manne) : variant of Mann.
  • French (Picardy) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of a kind of basket with two handles, called manne in Old French.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Mane, a variant of Man 8.

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