Given name & surname

Cooney

“a handsome man”

Cooney is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “a handsome man.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

One Irish interpretation is “a handsome man.”

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.

How it developed

From Irish Ó Cuana (“descendant of Cuana”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Cooney’s family of names

Cooney has a related form in Coonea. Cooney has a related form in Coonee. Cooney has a related form in Cooni.

Walk Cooney’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 5

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Caughey

“son of Eochaidh”

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

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