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cooney Name Meaning and History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuana ‘descendant of Cuana’, a personal name either based on ‘hound’ or derived from cuanna ‘elegant’, ‘comely’.

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cooney Family Facts

Distribution of cooney Families in the US in 1920
Number of cooney families
 300-597
 101-299
 1-100
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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