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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : of uncertain origin; perhaps a shortened form of Kinchen.
  • Irish : reduced form of the Gaelic patronymic Mac Aonghuis ‘son of Angus’ (see McGinnis).
  • Anglicized spelling of South German Kintsch, a variant of Künz (see Kuntz).

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