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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name, probably for a goatherd (from Middle English kid(e) ‘young goat’ + man ‘man’), but possibly also for a cutter of faggots (from Middle English kidde ‘faggot’).

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