Frequency: (330)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: variant of Kendall.
2. Americanized spelling of German Kindel.
3. Swedish: ornamental name formed with the place-name element kind- ‘family’, ‘tribe’ + the adjectival suffix -ell, taken from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
