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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Manx : from a metathesized form of Crennall, which is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Raghnaill ‘son of Raghnall’, a personal name from Old Norse R{o,}gvaldr meaning ‘ruler of the gods’.

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