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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from Kinghorn in Fife. This is recorded as Kyngorn in 1374; it is named in Gaelic from ceann ‘head’, ‘height’ + gronna ‘bog’. The modern spelling is the result of folk etymology.

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