First name origin & meaning: Irish: Mouth of the Roe River; wheelwright First name variations: Munroe, Munro, Monro Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish: according to tradition, this is a rare example of a
Gaelic surname of topographic origin, the first element of which is
probably Gaelic mun, a mutated form of bun ‘foot’, or
British minit ‘hill’. In Ireland this name has sometimes been
used as an equivalent of O’Mellan (see Mellon) and
Milroy 2.
- Scottish bearers of this name are descended from Donald O’Kane, who
in the 11th century migrated from the mouth of the Roe to Ferrindonald
in Cromarty, Scotland. There his descendants, as barons of Foulis and
vassals of the earls of Ross, held lands along the Firth of
Cromarty. James Monroe (1758–1831), 5th president of the U.S. (1817–25), came from a cadet branch of this family.
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