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Monroe

//mənˈɹoʊ// name

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  1. 1
    A Scottish topographic surname from Scottish Gaelic from Gaelic words meaning "foot of a hill"
  2. 2
    A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  3. 3
    A townland in County Meath, Ireland.
  4. 4
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; The former name of an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, now Hales Grove.
  5. 5
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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  1. 6
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A city, the county seat of Walton County, Georgia.
  2. 7
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small town in Adams County, Indiana.
  3. 8
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small unincorporated community in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
  4. 9
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small city in Jasper County, Iowa.
  5. 10
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; An unincorporated community in Hart County, Kentucky.
  6. 11
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A sizable city, the parish seat of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.
  7. 12
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A town in Waldo County, Maine.
  8. 13
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
  9. 14
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Michigan.
  10. 15
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A village in Platte County, Nebraska.
  11. 16
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
  12. 17
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A sizable town and village in Orange County, New York.

    "With the secession of some of Monroe’s land to become a new town that encompassed Kiryas Joel, the village absorbed residents who had been living on former Monroe land."

  13. 18
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A city, the county seat of Union County, North Carolina.

    "I was born and raised in Monroe, the seat of Union County, North Carolina. That makes me, as an indulgent friend once put it, a “country boy.”"

  14. 19
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A city in Warren County and Butler County, Ohio.
  15. 20
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio.
  16. 21
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
  17. 22
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small city in Benton County, Oregon.
  18. 23
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A borough of Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
  19. 24
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small town in Turner County, South Dakota.
  20. 25
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; An unincorporated community in Overton County, Tennessee.
  21. 26
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small city in Sevier County, Utah.
  22. 27
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; An unincorporated community in Amherst County, Virginia.
  23. 28
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A city in Snohomish County, Washington.
  24. 29
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A small town in Adams County, Wisconsin.
  25. 30
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A town and city, the county seat of Green County, Wisconsin.
  26. 31
    Any of a number of places in the United States, including:; A number of townships in the United States, listed under Monroe Township.
  27. 32
    A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

Etymology

From Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”) + Roe, a river in Northern Ireland, meaning "man from the River Roe".

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