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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Somerset and Wiltshire) : possibly a derivative of Middle English kiken ‘to watch’, ‘to spy’. Compare Kicker.
  • German : variant of Keck.
  • Dutch : probably a nickname, from a derivative of kikken ‘to kick’.

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