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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of McCoan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Comhdhain or Mac Comhghain ‘son of Comhdhan’, a personal name of unexplained meaning.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of Jewish Cohen or German and Jewish Kohn.

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