Munchy meaning | Last name Munchy origin

Family name is the variation of Munn. An abbreviation or nurse-name of Edmund. But more probably a corruption of the Norman Mohun. A correspondent observes that "the name is quite common in Kent, and it has only of late years spread into other counties. I have now property that went by the name of Munn's three hundred years ago."

Surname is a variant of Muncey. The same as Monceux an ancient corruption - The great Norman family, who gave the suffix to Hurst-Monceux, county of Sussex, and to Compton-Monceux, county Hants., derived their surname "from a place in the parish of Gueron, in the diocese of Bayeux, and are stated by some authorities to have come over with the Conqueror." Venables's Herstmonceux and its Lords. Lond. 1851. French monceux, heaps, monticuli
Muncy in Hundred Rolls.

The variation of Mounsey. A corruption of Monceux - The great Norman family, who gave the suffix to Hurst-Monceux, county of Sussex, and to Compton-Monceux, county Hants., derived their surname "from a place in the parish of Gueron, in the diocese of Bayeux, and are stated by some authorities to have come over with the Conqueror." Venables's Herstmonceux and its Lords. Lond. 1851. French monceux, heaps, monticuli

The parish of Herstmonceux, county of Sussex, is in rustic parlance Herst, or rather Hors-Mounseys.

Munchy is variant of Munn. One who resided in a monastic establishment, a monk.

A variant form of Monson. The son of Mon, a pet form of Magnus meaning "great".

Is form of Munson. The son of Mans, a pet form of Magnus meaning "great"; the son of Mun, a pet form of Edmund meaning "rich, protector".

The variant of Mohun. Moyon, an ancient barony near St. Lo, in Normandy. William de Moiun, whose descendants varied their orthography to Mohun, was a great tenant in chief in the western counties. Hence Moon, and perhaps Munn.

The Munchy is form of Monceux. The great Norman family, who gave the suffix to Hurst-Monceux, county of Sussex, and to Compton-Monceux, county Hants., derived their surname "from a place in the parish of Gueron, in the diocese of Bayeux, and are stated by some authorities to have come over with the Conqueror." Venables's Herstmonceux and its Lords. Lond. 1851. French monceux, heaps, monticuli.

Munchy is the variation of the Monsey. An old corrupt form of Monceaux.

Munchy is a variant of Monson. The following rather happy pun on this name is given in Willis's History of Cathedrals:
"Lunam cum Pheabo jungito, nomen habes"—
Join Moon and Sun, and Moxsox you will have.
Heraldic Anomalies.