English : habitational name from Kinsley in West Yorkshire,
recorded in Domesday Book as Chineslai ‘woodland clearing (Old
English lēah) of a man called Cyne’.
Probably
also an altered spelling of various like-sounding German names, such
as Kinzler, Kinseli, Künzli or
Künzle (see Kuenzli).
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