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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (West Cork) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó an Cháintighe ‘descendant of the satirist’, from cáinteach ‘satirical’, later shortened to Ó Cáinte.

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