English: either an occupational name for a cowherd, from Middle
English kineman ‘cattle man’ (not recorded except as a
surname), or more probably from a Middle English survival of the Old
English personal name Cynemann ‘royal man’, i.e. the king’s
man.
Scottish: according to Black, a reduced form of
Kininmonth, a habitational name from either of two places so
named in Fife; alternatively, it may be a variant of Kinmont, a
habitational name from a place named Kinmont, in Annandale in the
Borders.
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