Last name: KENT
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Last name frequency
KENT : This last name is indexed 395,695 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KENT : English and Irish: habitational name from the county of Kent. The surname is also established in Ireland where English bearers of this name settled in Meath in the 13th century. The name has been Gaelicized as Ceannt.
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