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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named in Brandenburg.
  • German : possibly from the Germanic personal name Chunizo, formed with kuoni ‘daring’, ‘experienced’, or chunni, kuni ‘race’, ‘people’. Compare Kuntz, Konrad.

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