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koenig Name Meaning and History

German (König) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kunic, German König ‘king’, hence a German nickname for a servant or retainer of a king (for example, a farmer on a royal demesne); or alternatively a status name for the head of a craftmen’s guild, or a society of sharpshooters or minstrels. As a Jewish surname, it was ornamental, one of several such Ashkenazic names based on European titles of nobility or royalty.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of koenig Families in the US in 1920
Number of koenig families
 202-402
 68-201		 1-67
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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