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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Old English personal name Cyneheard, composed of the elements cyne ‘royal’, ‘kingly’ + heard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
  • In some instances probably an Americanized form of German Kunert.

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