South German (Bavaria, Austria, Saxony): from the personal name
Kiehn, a variant of Kuehn.North German: topographic
name for someone who lived by a standing of pines, from Middle Low
German kien ‘pinewood spill’, ‘pine cone’, or alternatively a
metronymic from the female personal name Kunigunde.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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