Maan Family History
Maan Name Meaning
Indian (Punjab): Jat and Sikh name of unexplained etymology borne by one of the three oldest Jat tribes to settle in the subcontinent. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 滿 萬 文 閔 and 聞. See Man 5-8. Muslim (mainly Iraq and Syria): habitational name from any of several places called Maʿān in Arabia and the Levant. Muslim (mainly Pakistan): from the Arabic personal name Maʿān interpreted as ‘help assistance’ (maʿānat in Arabic). Dutch: topographic or habitational name referring to a house name such as Het Mannetje in de Maan (‘The Little Man in the Moon’) illustrated by a signboard with a picture of this little man wearing a bunch of branches on his back on the moon.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022