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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : perhaps a habitational name for someone from Cuijk on the Maas, south of Nijmegen.
  • Dutch : according to Debrabandere, it may be an occupational name for a cook, literally ‘from the kitchen’, from Dutch keuken ‘kitchen’.

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