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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a cooper, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kimme ‘rim’, ‘flange (on a tub)’ (see Kimm 2).
  • German : from a short form of the Germanic personal name Chunibald, formed with chunni ‘race’, ‘people’ or kuoni ‘daring’, ‘experienced’, + bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’.

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