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Where does “Corcoran” come from?

Corcoran is an English surname from Scottish Gaelic Maceachrain, which passed into English as Cochrane before being adopted in French as Corcoran.

Ancestry of “Corcoran”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1IrishÓ Corcráin—
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