Last name: HEENAN

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HEENAN : This last name is indexed 8,999 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

HEENAN : Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEidhneáin ‘descendant of Eidhneán’ a personal name meaning ‘little one of the ivy’ or else a shortened form of Ó hEidhneacháin (see Hennigan). Since the variant Ó hÉanáin like Ó hÉanna appears to contain the Irish word éan ‘bird’ both surnames have sometimes become Bird by folk translation (see Heaney).

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