The kin Surname
kin Name Meaning and History
- English: from a Middle English personal name, Kin, Kinna, which is a shortened form of any of various Old English names beginning with Cyne ‘royal’, for example Cynesige (see Kinsey).
- Dutch: nickname for someone with a pointed or jutting chin.
- Dutch: from Middle Dutch kinne ‘kin’.
- Hungarian: nickname from kín ‘pain’.
- Variant of Korean Kim.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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