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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Caisin or Ó Caisin ‘son (or descendant) of Caisín’, a byname based on a diminutive of cas ‘curly’. Compare Cassidy.

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