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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (now found chiefly in Ireland) : occupational name from Anglo-Norman French cordewaner ‘cordwainer’, ‘shoemaker’.
  • English (now found chiefly in Ireland) : from an agent derivative of Old French cordon ‘ribbon’, hence an occupational name for a maker or seller of cord or ribbon.
  • English (now found chiefly in Ireland) : occupational name for a worker in fine Spanish kid leather, from an agent derivative of Old French cordoan (see Cordon 2).

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