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Family name origins & meanings
- Hungarian : from kis ‘small’, applied as a nickname for a person of small stature or the younger of two bearers of the same personal name.
- English : from Anglo-Norman French cuisse ‘thigh’ (from Latin coxa), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of leg armor, which was normally of leather.
- German : variant of Kisch (of Czech origin).