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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an Americanized spelling of French Coué, from Old French coé ‘tail’. According to Morlet during the Middle Ages this was a derogatory nickname for an Englishman, possibly by implication a coward (see note at Coward).

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