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The kenny Surname

kenny Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coinnigh ‘descendant of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal name equivalent to Scottish Kenneth. This was borne by a 6th-century monk and saint who gave his name to the town of Kilkenny ‘church of Coinneach’.
  2. Irish: possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cionaodha ‘descendant of Cionaodh’, a personal name of unexplained etymology.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kenny name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the kenny family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of kenny Families in the US in 1920
Number of kenny families
 500-997
 167-499		 1-166
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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