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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhionnáin ‘son of Fionnán’, a pet form of Finn, or of Ó Cianáin (see Keenan), Ó Cuinneáin, or Ó Cuineáin (see Cunneen).

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