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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Bavaria, Austria, Saxony) : from the personal name Kiehn, a variant of Kuehn.
  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived by a standing of pines, from Middle Low German kien ‘pinewood spill’, ‘pine cone’, or alternatively a metronymic from the female personal name Kunigunde.

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