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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Kanitz in Saxony, or from one of the similar place names in Germany and Bohemia; in some cases Czech kanec ‘boar’ may be the source of the name.

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