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First name origins & meanings:

1. Irish: Wise one; river name
2. Irish: Old

First name variations: Shan, Shanon, Shanen, Shana, Shanan, Shane, Shanen, Shann, Shannan, Shannen, Shanon

Last name origins & meanings:

1. Irish: reduced form of Shanahan.
2. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanáin ‘descendant of Seanán’, a personal name based on a pet form of seán ‘old’.
3. Irish: in County Clare, a reduced Anglicized form of Mac Giolla tSeanáin ‘son of the servant of St. Seanán’. In the Irish midlands Leonard and Nugent have been adopted as equivalents of this name.

Famous people with this last name: Molly Shannon

This name appears in the following lists: Lakes and Rivers, Olympic Medalists