German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Kenner
‘connoisseur’ (from kennen ‘know’), hence a nickname for
someone considered to be knowledgeable or an expert of some kind; it
may also have been used ironically to denote a ‘know-all’.German: habitational name for someone from Kenn, near
Trier.German: topographic name for someone living near a water
pipe or channel, from Middle High German kener ‘water channel’,
‘drainage pipe’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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