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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the female personal name Kinne, a Silesian pet form of Middle High German Kunigunde, composed of the Old High German elements kuoni ‘brave’ + gund ‘battle’.
  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch kinne ‘relative’, possibly denoting someone who was the relative of a prominent person.

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