where did all the manning families originally come from?

Answer 1

Manning

English: patronymic from Mann 1 and 2. (See below)

Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Mainnín (see Below) ‘descendant of Mainnín’, probably an assimilated form of Mainchín, a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced Ó Maingín and Anglicized as Mangan.


Mann

English, German, Dutch (De Mann), and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a fierce or strong man, or for a man contrasted with a boy, from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch man. In some cases it may have arisen as an occupational name for a servant, from the medieval use of the term to describe a person of inferior social status. The Jewish surname can be ornamental.

English and German: from a Germanic personal name, found in Old English as Manna. This originated either as a byname or else as a short form of a compound name containing this element, such as Hermann.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Man (cognate with 1).

Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Jat) and Sikh name of unknown meaning.


Mangan

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mongáin ‘descendant of Mongán’, originally a byname for someone with a luxuriant head of hair (from mong ‘hair’, ‘mane’), borne by families from Connacht, County Limerick, and Tyrone. It is also a Huguenot name, traced back to immigrants from Metz.
Irish: see Manning.

English (of Norman origin): nickname for a glutton, from Old French manger ‘to eat’.

English: occupational name from old Spanish mangón ‘small trader’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Answer 2

Ireland/England

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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