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The kinder Surname

kinder Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from a place in Derbyshire, of unknown etymology (probably a pre-English hill name, but the form is obscure).
  2. German: from the genitive plural of Kind ‘child’, possibly denoting someone who had a lot of children, as in Hans der Kinder ‘Hans of the children’ (Eisleben 15th century), or short for some compound such as Kindervater ‘male midwife’ or Kinderfreund ‘one who likes children’.
  3. German: variant of Günther (see Guenther).

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

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kinder Family Facts

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Distribution of kinder Families in the US in 1920
Number of kinder families
 86-170
 29-85		 1-28
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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