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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a churchyard, Middle Dutch kerchof, or (with the preposition van) a habitational name, from any of various places named with this word.
  • North German form of Kirchhoff, cognate with 1.

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