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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch kint ‘child’.
  • German : variant of Kind, possibly derived from pet forms Kintlein or Kintling ‘little child’.
  • A Hendrick Pietersz Kint, also known as Kint int Water, ‘child in the water,’ occurs in New Amsterdam.

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