My grandmothers last name was Goonan does any one have any idea what nationality that is?

Question

My grandmothers last name was Goonan does any one have any idea what nationality that is?

Answer 1

GOONAN Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gamhnáin, from a diminutive of gamhra ‘calf’. Compare Gaffney.

GAFFNEY Name Meaning and History

1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gamhna ‘descendant of Gamhain’, a byname meaning ‘calf’. On occasion the English surname Caulfield was adopted as equivalent.

2.  Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss German Gaf(f)ner, a topographic name for a cottage dweller, from dialect Gafene ‘large basket’, ‘Alpine (dairy) hut’.

Answer 2

Sounds irish to me.