Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : nickname from an agent derivative of kincken, kichen ‘to gasp or wheeze’ or of kinken ‘to sound’.
- Dutch : spelling variant of Middle Dutch quinker, nickname for someone who darted around, from quinken ‘to move quickly, dart’, ‘to flicker or twinkle’.
- Dutch : from a derivative of Kink, a variant of Königer, from a Germanic personal name based on kuoni ‘daring’, ‘experienced’ or chunni, kuni ‘race’, ‘people’.