Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish : from a medieval personal name Kid, a variant of Kit, a pet form of Christopher.
- English : from Middle English kid(e) ‘young goat’, hence a nickname for a frisky person or a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd.
- English : metonymic occupational name for a seller of faggots, from Middle English kidde ‘faggot’ (of unknown origin).