Muns
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Frequency: (259)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Catalan: variant spelling of Munts, plural of Munt.
2. French: from a Germanic personal name, Munzo or Munso, pet forms of Muno or Mundo, from either mun (related to Gothic munan ‘to think’) or mund ‘protection’.
3. Dutch: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Simon, Simoen (see Simon).
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