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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Simo(e)n (see Simon).
  • Belgian (van Moen) : habitational name for someone from Moen in West Flanders.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads all over Norway, so named from the definite singular form of mo, from Old Norse mór ‘plain’, ‘moor’, ‘heath’.

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