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knee Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish and Manx: reduced form of McNee.
  2. English (Wiltshire): nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the knee(s), Middle English kne (Old English cneow).
  3. German: altered spelling of knie ‘knee’, a topographic name for an odd-shaped piece of land, or a nickname for someone with an unusual or injured knee.

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

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

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Distribution of knee Families in the US in 1920
Number of knee families
 18-34
 7-17		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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