Last name origins & meanings:
- English: nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance,
or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from
Middle English munk, monk ‘monk’ (Old English
munuc, munec, from Late Latin monachus, Greek
monakhos ‘solitary’, a derivative of monos ‘alone’).
- North German (Mönk) and Dutch: equivalent of 1,
from Middle Low German monik, Middle Dutch moni(n)c,
mun(i)c.
- Irish: translation of Gaelic Ó
Muineaog (see Minogue) or Ó Manacháin (see
Monahan).
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational
name for a miller or flour merchant, from Polish mąka
‘flour’, ‘meal’.
This name appears in the following lists:
Black History/Civil Rights Leaders,
Composers
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