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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from East or West Chinnock in Somerset, recorded in Domesday Book as Cinioch. The name is of uncertain origin; according to Mills, it may from a derivative of Old English cinu ‘deep valley’, or possibly from an old hill name of Celtic origin.

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