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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic surname for someone who lived near a church. The word comes from Old English cyrice, ultimately from medieval Greek kyrikon, for earlier kyriakōn (dōma) ‘(house) of the Lord’, from kyrios ‘lord’.
  • Translation of German Kirch.

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