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Surname Etymology and Meaning of KINNEY

Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

(origin: Gaelic) Cine, kindred, a clan, a tribe. Keny and Cany, seeing, knowing; Welsh, cenio, to see.

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

Scottish: reduced form of McKinney.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)