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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • French : Modest

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuáin ‘descendant of Cuán’, a byname from a diminutive of ‘hound’, ‘dog’.
  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cadhain ‘descendant of Cadhan’, a byname from cadhan ‘barnacle goose’.
  • Irish : Anglicized form of Ó Comhgháin ‘descendant of Comghán’, a Connacht name usually Anglicized as Coen.
  • Irish : variant of Quinn.
  • English : metonymic occupational name for a minter of money, or a derogatory nickname for a miser, from Middle English coin ‘piece of money’ (earlier the die used to stamp money, from Latin cuneus ‘wedge’).

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