The Kenion Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Kenyon surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

The meaning behind Kenion

Not every Kenion is related, but the name itself grew out of Kenyon. The family name meaning is “Mound of Einion”, the same as for Kenyon.

Kenion writes “i” in place of the “y” found in Kenyon, a typical scribal difference. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The 2010 census count for Kenion in the United States was 348, good for rank 58,337.

Get the complete Kenion report, with a museum-style coat of arms.