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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the old personal name Chunizo, formed with Old High German kuoni ‘bold’, ‘brave’, ‘experienced’, or possibly chunni ‘race’, ‘people’. It is sometimes taken as a pet form of Konrad. The expression Hinz und Kunz was a German equivalent of ‘every Tom, Dick, and Harry’.

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