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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : occupational name for a bargee, from Low German kane ‘boat’.
  • German : from a short form of the Germanic personal name Cagano, itself a short form of a personal name formed with gagan, gegen ‘against’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : one of the many variants of Cohen.

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