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The kinchen Surname

kinchen Name Meaning and History

  1. English: of uncertain origin; it may be from the thieves’ slang term kinchin ‘child’, which is probably a derivative of German Kindchen, diminutive of Kind ‘child’.
  2. Americanized form of Kindchen or more probably of Rhenish Kindgen (pronounced ‘kintshen’), both diminutives of Kind.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kinchen Families in the US in 1920
Number of kinchen families
 28-54
 10-27
 1-9
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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