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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from any of various places that derive their names from Gaelic ceann ‘head(land)’ + loch ‘loch’. The most likely source of the surname is Kinloch at the head of Loch Rossie (now drained) in Fife, where a certain John Kinloch is recorded in charters dating from around 1240.

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