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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably an occupational name for a servant in charge of the children at a manor, from Kinder, the plural of Kind ‘child’ + Knecht ‘servant’. Compare the surnames Herrenknecht ‘lords' servant’, Frauenknecht ‘ladies' servant’.

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