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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : Golden

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : Golden

How Popular Is The Name Kin

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a Middle English personal name, Kin, Kinna, which is a shortened form of any of various Old English names beginning with Cyne ‘royal’, for example Cynesige (see Kinsey).
  • Dutch : nickname for someone with a pointed or jutting chin.
  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch kinne ‘kin’.
  • Hungarian : nickname from kín ‘pain’.
  • Variant of Korean Kim.

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