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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Hanks.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from Khanke (a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Khane; see Hanna 1), with the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.

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