Boy name origins & meanings
- German : Nephew
- Irish : The servant of the saints
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Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish and Irish (Leinster) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Naoimhín, a patronymic from a personal name representing a diminutive of naomh ‘saint’.
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cnáimhín ‘son of Cnámhín’, a Galway name, or Ó Cnáimhín, a Munster name meaning ‘descendant of Cnámhín’, a byname meaning ‘little bone’, used to refer to a thin man.