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  1. Scottish and northern English: patronymic from a pet form of Pate, a short form of Patrick.
  2. Irish: in Ulster of English or Scottish origin; in County Galway, a surname taken by bearers of Gaelic Ó Caisín 'descendant of the little curly-headed one' (from Gaelic casán), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

*Information taken from Ancestry.com surname search

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