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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Staffordshire, named with Old English cirice or Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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