Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mocháin
‘descendant of Mochán’, a personal name from a diminutive of
moch ‘early’, ‘timely’. In Connacht this name was changed to
Mahon; it is also found translated into English as
Early. It has been used to represent the Norman habitational
surname de Mohun.
- Indian (Panjab and southern states): Hindu name from Sanskrit mohana ‘fascinating’, ‘infatuating’,
an epithet of the god Krishna. In the Panjab, it is a Brahman name
based on the name of a clan in the Mohyal subgroup of Saraswat
Brahmans; it probably evolved from an ancestral personal name. In the
southern states this is only found as a male given name; it has also
come to be used as a family name in the U.S. among familes from South
India.
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