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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Although in German-speaking countries, this surname arose either as a patronymic from Kuhn or a habitational name from a place so named in former Silesia, in the majority of instances in the U.S. it is a Pennsylvania form of German Kuntz, the other common spelling being Koons.

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