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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from a place called Kennington in Greater London (formerly in Surrey), Oxfordshire, or Kent. The first two are from the Old English personal name Cēna + -ing- (a connective particle denoting association with) + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. The place in Kent is named from Old English cyne- ‘royal’ + tūn.

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