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Manning

Name origin: Old English

Name meaning: Man of the meadow

Force

Name origin: English

Name meaning: variant of Fosse. There has been some confusion with northwestern English force in the sense of ‘waterfall’, it is possible that the surname may also have arisen as a topographic name for someone living by a waterfall.

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