Family name origins & meanings
- English and Irish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Moulineaux in Seine-Maritime, so named from the plural of Old French moulineau, a diminutive of moulin ‘mill’. In some cases this may have been an occupational name as in 2.
- French : occupational name for a miller, from molineux, a variant of Old French molineur ‘miller’.
- Irish : Anglicized form of Mulligan.
- Irish (Co. Kerry) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maol an Mhuaidh ‘descendant of Maol an Mhuaidh (follower of the noble)’.