Meaning and Origin
What does the name Kin mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- According to a user from the United Kingdom, the name Kin is of Japanese origin and means "Golden, Money, Light/Sun".
- According to a user from Australia, the name Kin is of Mexican origin and means "Sun".
- A user from the United Arab Emirates says the name Kin is of Filipino (Philippines) origin and means "A good and faithful servant of God. MALUPIT. GWAPO".
- A submission from Myanmar says the name Kin means "Friendly ,Kind".
- Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
- Relatives; persons of the same family or race."The father, mother, and the kin beside." [Dryden.]"You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons." [Bacon.]
Etymology: OE. kin cun, AS. cynn kin, kind, race, people; akin to cennan to beget, D. kunne sex, OS. & OHG. kunni kin, race, Icel. kyn, Goth. kuni, G. & D. kind a child, L. genus kind, race, L. gignere to beget, Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born, Skr. jan to beget. √44. Cf. Kind King Gender kind, Nation
Etymology: Gr. kinei^n to move
- Group of people related by blood or marriage
- A person having kinship with another or others ("he's kin")
- Related by blood
From Middle English kin, kyn, ken, kun, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank, quality, family, generation, offspring, pedigree, kin, race, people, gender, sex, propriety, etiquette”), from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”). Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
- Race; family; breed; kind.
- (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
- One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
- Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
- Kind; sort; manner; way.
kin was also found in the following language(s): Afrikaans, Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Ido, Japanese, Kurdish, Lojban, Navajo, Ngarrindjeri, and West Frisian