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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (also found in Donegal) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhunna ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Munnu’. This name, which is also found in the form Mundu, from earlier Mo-Fhindu, is a hypocoristic form of Fionntan with the affective prefix mo- ‘my’.

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