Northern Irish (Connacht) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Conduibh ‘son of Cú Dhubh’, a personal name or byname
meaning ‘black hound’, from cú ‘hound’ (genitive con)
+ dubh ‘black’. It is also Anglicized as Cunniff and
McNiff.
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