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The kinsley Surname

kinsley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Kinsley in West Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Chineslai ‘woodland clearing (Old English leah) of a man called Cyne’.
  2. Probably also an altered spelling of various like-sounding German names, such as Kinzler, Kinseli, Künzli or Künzle (see Kuenzli).

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Distribution of kinsley Families in the US in 1920
Number of kinsley families
 56-110
 19-55
 1-18
 0
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