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Meaning & Origins
Mainly U.S.: of uncertain origin, perhaps a respelling of Dewi or transferred use of the surname.
| 1,235th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Irish: 1. reduced form of Shanahan. 2. reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanáin‘descendant of Seanán’, a personal name based on a pet form of seán ‘old’. 3. 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.
| 694th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Dee, Dewei, Dewe, Deweh, De, Dewee, Deweye, Dea, Deweie, Deweo
Shanks, Shank, Shane, Shanahan, Seaman, Shaner, Shanklin, Shuman, Shanley, Shankle
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