Last name: COVENEY
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COVENEY : This last name is indexed 14,051 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
COVENEY : 1: English (Kent): habitational name from a place in Cambridgeshire named Coveney from either the genitive case of Old English cofa ‘shelter’ (see Cove) or of a personal name Cofa (of uncertain origin) + Old English ēg ‘island’. This surname is also established in Ireland where it is more probably a phonetic Anglicization of an Irish name. See sense 2.2: Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Ó Coibhdheanaigh or Mac Coibhdheanaigh ‘descendant’ or ‘son’ of Coibhdheanach a personal name derived from the Irish word coibhdhean ‘(marauding) troop raiding party’.
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