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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named in Bavaria.
  • German : topographic name for someone living near a stand of fir trees, from Middle High German kien ‘pine’, ‘pine wood shavings’ + holz ‘wood’, ‘lumber’.

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