English: probably a topographic name for someone who lived by a
quince tree or a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of
quinces, from Middle English, Old French cooin ‘quince’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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