Where did all the manning families originally come from?

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Where did all the manning families originally come from?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Manning

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

Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic 㓠Mainn㭮 (see Below) ??descendant of Mainn㭮??, probably an assimilated form of Mainch㭮, a diminutive of manach ??monk??. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced 㓠Maing㭮 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 㓠Mong㡩n ??descendant of Mong㡮??, 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 mang㳮 ??small trader??.

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