In Ireland "Conway" is often an anglicized form of several Irish names, such as Mac Connmhaigh, a byname meaning "Head Smasher"(!) or Mac Connbhuidhe, - the "Yellow Hound", another interesting nickname. The (Mac) Conway sept belonged to counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary.
Conway Name Meaning. ... Welsh: habitational name from Conwy formerly Conway, a fortified town on the coast of North Wales, itself named for the river on which it stands.
In English the meaning of the name Cony is: Hill hollow.
This interesting and unusual name is a patronymic from "Conyer", plus the diminutive suffix "-s", son of. Conyers is of Anglo-Norman-French origin and is an occupational surname for a "minter" a coiner of money.
Conyn is a baby boy name its meaning is . Mostly popular in christian religion. The poeple have viewed this name 1734 times.
Cooey. Buy JPG Image » The saga of the Cooey family name begins among the people of an ancient Scottish tribe called the Picts. The Cooey name is derived from the personal name Aodh, a cognate of Hugh. The Gaelic form of the name is usually Mac Aoidh and in Inverness, the Gaelic form of the name Cooey is Mac Ai.
The saga of the name Cook follows a line reaching back through history to the days of the Anglo-Saxon tribes in Britain. It was a name for someone who worked as a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating-house. The surname Cook is derived from the Old English word coc, which means cook.
Last name: Cooke. SDB Popularity ranking: 170. This interesting surname is of Scottish origin, and is derived from the occupational name for a cook, derived from the Latin "cocus"; the name could also have been given to a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house.
Cooley Name Meaning. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chúille 'son of the servant of (Saint) Mochúille', a rare Clare name, or a reduced form of McCooley, a variant of McCauley. Americanized form of German Kuhle or Kühle, variants of Kuhl.
Coolidge Name Meaning. probably an occupational name for a college servant or someone with some other association with a university college, for example a tenant farmer who farmed one of the many farms in England known as College Farm, most of which are or were owned by university colleges. See Colledge.
