Last name: KING
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Last name frequency
KING : This last name is indexed 2,493,149 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KING : The primary sense is a head or leader. Gaelic, ceann; Welsh, cun and cur, a head, a leader. Saxon, cyng, and nearly the same in all the Teutonic dialects.
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- Galway (5,035)
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