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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
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 30 - Messages: 101
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Kinchen/Adams (GA,SC,NC,) with a tie to Adams Debbra Adams 2
looking for greg poirrier james kinchen 40
Jacob Norfleet m. Elizabeth Kinchen, NC hathawayha 14
Spc. Levi B. Kinchen, 21, of Tickfaw, La., 2003 jasche 0
Lance Cpl. Jeremiah C. Kinchen, 22, of Salcha, Alaska, d. Iraq, April 2005 jasche 0
Kinchen in McNairy, TN fremenchild 7
KINCHEN EDDIE RIDGEL 1
KINCHEN_Mary_BURNSIDE_1903-1997.JPG t42RoseHill 0
KINCHEN_Curtis_C_and_Lillian.JPG t42RoseHill 0
Tennessee Tax Lists D L Miller 0
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