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.