Northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Corcáin
‘descendant of Corcán’, a personal name from the diminutive
of corc ‘crimson’, with the addition of redundant English
genitive -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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