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Coen

Gender: M Popularity: this week. Origin of Coen: Dutch diminutive of Coenraad Meaning of Coen: "bold advisor"

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Like many short forms now popular as full names in the Netherlands, Coen -- also spelled Koen -- originated as the diminutive of the more old-fashioned Coenraad, the Dutch Conrad. May be confused in the U.S. with Cohen, which stems from the Jewish surname designating a priest.