Details for the forename Agnew

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Agnew (surname)


Variants:	Agnellini (S) Agnellotti (S) Agnelutti (S) D'Agnello (S) D'Agniello (S) Delagneau (S)

Source(s):	The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:	1. English from Old Fench (Norman) for a "meek or pious person", from Latin for "lamb". 2. English from a Norman placename, Agneau in La Manche, origin unknown. 3. Irish, from the Gaelic Ó Gnímh, "descendant of Gníomh". Gníomh is thought to mean "action".