Manion
An Irish surname, often taken as an Anglicized form of an Irish Gaelic name now associated with a few different possible roots.
The #6,640 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 60,550 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Manion is generally treated as an Anglicized Irish surname, but its exact Gaelic source is not entirely settled. Earlier surname writers linked it with forms such as Ó Mainnín or related Irish names, suggesting a patronymic sense tied to a personal name rather than a place or occupation. In practice, the name has been recorded under several spellings, reflecting the way Irish names were rendered into English.
History
The surname appears in Irish and Irish-American records in several spellings, including Manion and Mannion. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century surname scholars often grouped it with other Irish family names from the west and midlands of Ireland, but they did not agree on a single derivation. The modern name is especially common in Ireland and in diaspora communities in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia.
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Fun fact
Early surname indexes sometimes file Manion beside Mannion and other similar names because spellings were highly fluid in 19th-century records.
From the historical record
“0 triAinriin, Mannin, Mannion, Manion, Manning, Mangin ; Mangan. 0 triAiiicin, Martin. O rriAnACAin, Monaghan, Mona-”
— Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall: Irish names and surnames