Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of several places, for example in northwest London (formerly Middlesex), Somerset, and Warwickshire. These are mostly named in Old English as cyninges burh ‘the king’s stronghold’, but the last mentioned is Cynesburh ‘stronghold of Cyne’. Cyne is a short form of any of various compound names with cyne- ‘royal’ as the first element.