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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : perhaps a habitational name from Killin in Perthshire.
  • Irish : variant of Killeen.
  • According to Reaney and Wilson, a variant of Killing, a habitational name from Kelling in Norfolk or Nunkeeling in Humberside.

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