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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a pet form of Henn 1.
  • Dutch : from a pet form of Henneke.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from Khenke (a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Khane; see Hanna 2) + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.

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