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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Kiliński) : from the personal name Kilian, which is from the Irish personal name Cillín (see Killeen). St. Kilian was a 7th-century Irish missionary to Franconia and Thuringia, martyred c. 698 at Würzburg, hence the popularity of the personal name in medieval central Europe.
  • Polish (Kiliński) : habitational name for someone from a place called Kiliany, named for this saint.

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