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Re: Meaning of the surname Kness

by Marc (picard)

8/7/2009, 9:48 AM

Kness is an Americanization of the German name Knöss which you can situate at http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/kn%25C3%25B6ss.html. I don't know the etymology.

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- Arie1207 +1

8/9/2009, 4:49 PM

I found it on ancestry.com and it said Kness is an Americanized form of the Slavic name Knez, which means "prince" or "chief".

- Marc (picard)

8/10/2009, 8:30 AM

If you go to http://tr.im/w9NA, you'll find that Kness is an Americanization of German Knoess which is just a variant spelling of Knöss. The relation between Kness and Knez is pure fiction.

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