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kin Name Meaning and History

  1. 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).
  2. Dutch: nickname for someone with a pointed or jutting chin.
  3. Dutch: from Middle Dutch kinne ‘kin’.
  4. Hungarian: nickname from kín ‘pain’.
  5. Variant of Korean Kim.

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kin Family Facts

Distribution of kin Families in the US in 1920
Number of kin families
 18-33
 7-17
 1-6
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Mok KIN Arrested 1906 PA Obits101 0
John and Maire Kin Kin 14
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