Family name origins & meanings
- English (now found chiefly in Ireland) : occupational name from Anglo-Norman French cordewaner ‘cordwainer’, ‘shoemaker’.
- English (now found chiefly in Ireland) : from an agent derivative of Old French cordon ‘ribbon’, hence an occupational name for a maker or seller of cord or ribbon.
- English (now found chiefly in Ireland) : occupational name for a worker in fine Spanish kid leather, from an agent derivative of Old French cordoan (see Cordon 2).