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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a maker of jugs, from an agent derivative of Middle High or Middle Low German kanne ‘jug’, ‘tankard’, German Kanne (see Kann).
  • German : occupational name for a maker of gutters and drainage pipes, Middle High German kaner. Compare Kandler.

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