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The Irish name Manus is the shortened form of McManus. In Ireland the surname is the anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Maghnuis, patronymic from a Gaelic form of the Scandinavian personal name Magnus. The king of Norway, Magnus the Good (died 1047), was named for the Emperor Charlemagne, Latin Carolus Magnus 'Charles the Great'. The name spread from Norway to the eastern Scandinavian royal houses, and became popular all over Scandinavia and then in the English Danelaw.

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