Cooney

English

Etymology

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cuana (“descendant of Cuana”), a personal name either derived from cú (“hound”) or cuanna (“elegant, comely”).

Proper noun

Cooney (countable and uncountable, plural Cooneys)

1. A surname from Irish.
2. A ghost town in Catron County, New Mexico, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio, United States

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cooney is the 2883^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 12455 individuals. Cooney is most common among White (92.85%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cooney”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 364.

Manx

Proper noun

Cooney f

1. a female given name, Anglicized as Constance

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Cooney	Chooney	Gooney
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.