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please let me know of good websites (free sites) for first and last name meanings, this is for a school paper and I am not finding enough material.....I am also looking for meanings of last names as well but would rather not post them on here!


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please let me know of good websites (free sites) for first and last name meanings, this is for a school paper and I am not finding enough material.....I am also looking for meanings of last names as well but would rather not post them on here!

I know that Shannon is Irish and it means wise river. It directly comes from a large river in Ireland immigrants started naming children after the homeland when they moved here

This is all I could find for you,
Shannon Name Meaning and History
reduced form of Shanahan.
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic ó Seanáin ‘descendant of Seanán’, a personal name based on a pet form of seán ‘old’.
in County Clare, a reduced Anglicized form of Mac Giolla tSeanáin ‘son of the servant of St. Seanán’. In the Irish midlands Leonard and Nugent have been adopted as equivalents of this name.
There is nothing on the the other name, sorry.

The meaning of the name Shannon is Old
The origin of the name Shannon is Irish
Alternate spellings include: Shanon
Info on this name: Name of a river in Ireland
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