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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : from a dialect form of kühn ‘bold’ (Middle High German küene). This is found as an element in Germanic personal names such as Konrad. Compare Kuehn.
  • South German : altered spelling of Keine, a variant of Keiner.

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