Where Does the Kuhns Surname Come From?

Arms linked to Kuhn and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Kuhns means

The last name Kuhns is another written form of Kuhn, a German family name. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “One who was bold or keen”.

The extra ending in Kuhns is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Kuhn's family. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Kuhne, Kuehn and Kuehne. The 2010 census count for Kuhns in the United States was 7,055, good for rank 4,979.

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