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The mohn Surname

mohn Name Meaning and History

  1. metonymic occupational name for a grower of poppies, from Middle High German man ‘poppy’.
  2. from a short form of the Germanic personal name Monrad, composed of the elements mun ‘spirit’, ‘thought’ + rat ‘counsel’.
  3. variant of German Möhn (see Moehn).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mohn Families in the US in 1920
Number of mohn families
 83-164
 28-82
 1-27
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