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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the various places so called, in Dorset, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire. These are named from Old French cyne- ‘royal’ (replaced by Old English cyning ‘king’) + tūn ‘settlement’.

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