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kiss Name Meaning and History

  1. Hungarian: from kis ‘small’, applied as a nickname for a person of small stature or the younger of two bearers of the same personal name.
  2. English: from Anglo-Norman French cuisse ‘thigh’ (from Latin coxa), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of leg armor, which was normally of leather.
  3. German: variant of Kisch (of Czech origin).

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the kiss family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of kiss Families in the US in 1920
Number of kiss families
 42-81
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 46 - Messages: 113
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kiss family jo kiss 26
kiss family trishsmith1 0
Kiss Family Katarina Kiss 1
Joseph Kiss MarianneColeman 0
Sandor T Kiss lazekiss 0
Elizabeth Kiss hurika 3
Death: John KISS, 1863-1930, Martins Ferry, Belmont, Ohio marys1015 0
Emeric James Kiss (b. 1896 Hungary) m. Clara Kanynasi, 1917 maxine anderson 1
Chicago Kiss - Victoria Susan Welch 0
Peter Kiss Karen Hughes, 0
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