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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Casáin ‘descendant of Casán’, a diminutive of cas ‘curly’, or of Ó Ciosáin, which Woulfe believes to be a variant.

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