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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.

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

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

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

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Threads: 4 - Messages: 18
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Mok KIN Arrested 1906 PA Obits101 0
Kin WGF 0
John and Maire Kin Kin 14
KIN Donnadaleelliott 0
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