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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Mañas) : nickname for a devious person or alternatively for an astute or skillful person, from the plural of Spanish maña ‘trick’, ‘strategem’ (Late Latin mania, a derivative of manus ‘hand’).

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