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Origin Of The Surname Munro
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Meaning Of The Surname Munro
Red Haired and Tonsured
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Interesting
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Munro
Munro is a Scottish surname. It is of Gaelic origin and comes from the name Maolruadh which is made up of the elements ‘maol’ meaning bald and ‘ruadh’ meaning red, so the name would have been given as a descriptive surname for someone who was red haired and tonsured. Tonsuring is where a person shaves the hair off the crown of the head as a symbol of their devotion to God and their abandonment of vanity. |
Munro Statistics
Munro is the number 630 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 15,484 share the surname Munro in the UK.
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