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kamin Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kamen.
  2. German: topographic name for someone who lived at a house with a stove, Middle High German kamin, kemin ‘chimney’, ‘fireplace’, ‘stove’ (Latin caminus).
  3. German: probably a metonymic occupational name for a spice dealer, from Middle Low German kamin ‘caraway’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kamin Families in the US in 1920
Number of kamin families
 22-42
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 16 - Messages: 45
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Kamin Robin Cruz 6
Kamin Family from Germany Peter HW Kamin 5
Kamin or Kamien donuphoff31 14
john kamien cindygillin 1
Augusta Kamin of Chicago lfsands 0
Kinneary Greg O'Brien 0
Kamen in Chicago, immigrated 1860s netwri 0
kamin's Jennifer 0
Kamin/Kolodzik-Kamin/Strehlow family Sheri 2
Richard Kamen<>Johanna Yontz (Yantz) Rose Marie 0
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