Frequency: (1877)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish (West Cork): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó an Cháintighe ‘descendant of the satirist’, from cáinteach ‘satirical’, later shortened to Ó Cáinte.
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