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Surname Etymology and Meaning of CHANNING

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(origin: Saxon.) Cyning, knowing, wise; Dutch, Koning, whence king; the same derivation as Canning.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).