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cunningham Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: habitational name from a district in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English place-name element -ingham.
  2. Irish: surname adopted from Scottish by bearers of Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader’, ‘chief’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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cunningham Family Facts

Distribution of cunningham Families in the US in 1920
Number of cunningham families
 930-1858
 311-929		 1-310
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