Frequency: (104)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Greek: occupational name for a maker of handles (e.g. of knives), from medieval Greek manikion ‘sleeve’, ‘handle’, from Latin manicae ‘sleeve, manacle’.
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