Agnew

Meanings

1. A surname.
2. A placename, from the surname:
3. A place in the United States:
4. An unincorporated community in Whiteside County, Illinois.
5. An unincorporated community in Grand Haven Township, Ottawa County, Michigan.
6. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lancaster County, Nebraska.
7. An unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington.
8. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
9. A ghost town in the Shire of Leonora, Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.

Etymology

Two possible origins: * Scottish habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Agneaux, in Normandy. * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gnímh (“descendant of Gníomh”), a byname from gníomh (“action, deed, act”).