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kuhn Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from the personal name Kuno, a short form of Kunrat (see Konrad). The German word kühn, meaning ‘bold’, may have influenced the popularity of this short form, but is not necessarily the immediate source of it.
  2. German: variant spelling of Kühn(e) (see Kuehn).
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German kühn ‘bold’, but in some cases an altered spelling of Cohn or Kohn (see Cohen).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kuhn Families in the US in 1920
Number of kuhn families
 332-662
 111-331		 1-110
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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