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Mangan (surname)

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Language(s) of origin
  
Irish Gaelic

Meaning
  
"grandson (or descendant) of long-haired"

Region of origin
  
Connacht, County Limerick, and Tyrone.

Related names
  
Mongan, Mangham, Mangam, Mangin, Mangum, Mangon, Mingame, Mongain, Mongin, Mungan, Mungane, Mungin

Mangan is an Irish surname anglicised from the Gaelic Ó Mongáin ‘descendant of Mongan’, originally a byname for someone with a luxuriant head of hair (from mong ‘hair’, ‘mane’).

Notable people include:

  • Andrew Mangan, English footballer
  • Colm Mangan, Irish General
  • Cyrille Mangan, Cameroonian footballer
  • Dan Mangan, Canadian musician
  • Jim Mangan (1929 – 2007), American baseball player
  • James Clarence Mangan, Irish poet
  • James T. Mangan, author and eccentric
  • Joseph Mangan, American aerospace engineer
  • Lucy Mangan, British journalist
  • Luke Mangan, Australian chef
  • Stephen Mangan, English actor
  • Dan Mangan, fictional character of the Trixie Belden mystery series, written by Julie Campbell and later, Kathryn Kenny

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