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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : from kender ‘hemp’, from Old Turkish kändir, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew hemp or used it to make ropes and sacks, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a field of hemp.

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