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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : variant of Cunniff.
  • Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Koneff, from a diminutive of Knabe ‘boy’, or Knappe (Caneppele) ‘boy’, ‘page’; later, ‘miner’ (see Konefal).

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