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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinín (or Ó Coinín) ‘son (or ‘descendant’) of Coinín’, from a byname from coinín ‘rabbit’ or from cano ‘wolf’.
  2. Irish: Connacht variant of Cunnane (see Queenan).