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agnew Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Agneaux in Manche, France.
  2. Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gnímh ‘descendant of Gníomh’, a byname meaning ‘action’ or ‘activity’. The Ó Gnímhs were hereditary poets to a branch of the O’Neills; in this family the traditional pronunciation is with the stress on the second syllable.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of agnew Families in the US in 1920
Number of agnew families
 110-218
 37-109		 1-36
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