Scottish: habitational name from any of various places that derive
their names from Gaelic ceann ‘head(land)’ + loch
‘loch’. The most likely source of the surname is Kinloch at the head
of Loch Rossie (now drained) in Fife, where a certain John Kinloch is
recorded in charters dating from around 1240.
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