Cagney

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Cagney

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Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Caingnigh (“descendant of Caingneach”), a byname from caingneach (“troublesome”).

proper noun Cagneys · Kagney

A surname from Irish.
A female given name transferred from the surname. It’s a project of Johanna von Geldern, who previously operated Sweet Beet Bistro on Main Street in Greenwich, and her daughters Cagney and Kate Houlihan of Saratoga.

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@misc{cagney_2026,
  title = {Cagney},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cagney},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}