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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Kinder 2.
  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Kinne, near Bissingen.
  • Perhaps also a reduced form of Irish Kinnear; the name is found in this spelling in northern Ireland and England.

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