Family name origins & meanings
- Polish (Kiliński) : from the personal name Kilian, which is from the Irish personal name Cillín (see Killeen). St. Kilian was a 7th-century Irish missionary to Franconia and Thuringia, martyred c. 698 at Würzburg, hence the popularity of the personal name in medieval central Europe.
- Polish (Kiliński) : habitational name for someone from a place called Kiliany, named for this saint.