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Last name
Quinn

Nobility: Knights - Lords
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The surname Quinn is of Irish origin. The name is an anglicized form of the Gaelic name O'Cuinn, 'descendant of Conn', a byname meaning leader, chief. Quinn is the name of an ancient Irish family, whose forebears were once chiefs of the Clan Hefferman. One of their earliest recorded ancestors is Donogh Quinn, living in 1551. They are unusual in being one of the few Celtic families in the peerage, holding the titles Earl of Dunraven and Mountearl. Quinn is one of the most numerous Irish surnames, the number of people in Ireland so called at the present day being estimated at seventeen thousand. At the present time as a rule Catholic families use two Ns and Protestants one; but this practice is not invariable now, and was less so in the past. One of the first persons recorded to have borne this name is that of Niall O Cuinn,

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