English and Scottish: from Middle English kychene
‘kitchen’, hence an occupational name for someone who worked in or was
in charge of the kitchen of a monastery or great house.
Scottish and northern Irish: variant of McCutcheon.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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