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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and Jewish (from Poland) : nickname for a quick-tempered or aggressive person, from Slavic kuna ‘marten’, ‘weasel’.
  • Czech : also from the old personal name Kuna, a pet form of Kunrat (see Konrad).

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