When I was growing up my friend Conrad was always called Mickey. Coon is also used in the south to be short for raccoon. Maybe he shot a lot of coons when he was younger and got the nickname Coon from that. This is one of those fun mysteries. Ruth Cherecwich In a message dated 1/27/2005 6:46:11 PM Mountain Standard Time, caspritz@gmx.de writes: An American nickname for Conrad, I send this over the list because it may be interesting to other members. Thank you jjarm222 Diether Schwalbach, Hessen -----Original Message----- From: jjarm222 [mailto:jjarm222@revealed.net] My great uncle was born in Iowa in 1857........his parents in 1856 had immigrated from Germany. His name was Conrad, but was always known to everyone as "Uncle Coon". Hope this helps.