Family name origins & meanings
- Catalan (Monés) : probably a variant spelling of the plural of Old Catalan moner ‘mill’, a topographical name for someone who lived by or worked in a mill (Latin molinarius), or habitational name from any of the so-called places in Catalonia.
- Galician or Asturian-Leonese : habitational name place in Ourense (Galicia) or Asturies called Mones.