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kenyon Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a British name composed of the elements cruc ‘mound’ + a personal name cognate with Welsh Einion (see Eynon).
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a byname based on a diminutive of cano ‘wolf’, also Anglicized as Cunneen. The similarity to coinín ‘rabbit’, a later borrowing, has also caused it to be ‘translated’ as rabbit.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kenyon Families in the US in 1920
Number of kenyon families
 280-557
 94-279		 1-93
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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