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My greatgrand father was named "Kinchen Womack McDonald" with both his first and middle names being the last names of other family members. My nephew's name is also Kinchen, named after my great grand father.

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Last name origins & meanings: Irish and English: of uncertain origin; it may be from the thieves’ slang term kinchin ‘child’, which is probably a derivative of German Kindchen, diminutive of Kind ‘child’.
Americanized form of Kindchen or more probably of Rhenish Kindgen (pronounced ‘kintshen’), both diminutives of Kind.

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