my surname is Kirk where and what does it come from?

Answer 1

KIRK

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: KURK [key]
From a surname meaning "church" from Old Norse kirkja.

Answer 2

Kirk refers to church and church of Scotland in paticular.As a common noun, kirk is the Scots and Scottish English word for 'church', attested as a noun from the 14th century onwards, but as an element in placenames much earlier. Both words, kirk and church, derive from the Koine Greek κυριακόν (δωμα) (kyriakon (dōma)) meaning Lord's (house), which was borrowed into the Germanic languages in late antiquity, possibly in the course of the Gothic missions.

Answer 3

I'm not sure but my family come from the Shetland Islands and in the Shetland Islands a Kirk is a church. So this may be a starting point

Answer 4

Probably of Scottish origin, from the Old Norse kirkja, meaning "church". The Vikings left their mark on Scotland and your ancestors would have come from a settlement named after its church. The first Viking raid on Scotland occured at Iona, as well as Skye and the other outer isles, in 794 and the island was attacked several times in the following years. It was during these raids that the chronicle of Iona was lost although a copy of Adomnan's Life of Columba survived on the Continent. The appearance of these invaders caused great fear among the inhabitants, a report from Alcuin at Lindisfarne states 'It is some 350 years that we and our forefathers have inhabited this lovely land, and never before in Britain has such a terror appeared as we now suffered at the hands of the heathen. Nor was it thought possible that such an inroad from the sea could be made'. The Viking successes were due to their invention of the keel, mastery of rudder and sail and, of course, their skill in navigation. Unlike the small Irish coracle the Viking long-boat was up to seventy feet long, carried thirty oars and was capable of being rowed across the North Sea. It was possible for them to make long sea voyages with large forces of fighting men. The boats themselves acquired significance of a religious kind and the Viking ruler was often interred in his boat surrounded by his weaponry and other equipment.
It was not until 1266 that Norway ceded its lands, including Kintyre and Man, to the Scottish king. In the main it was Norse who came to Scotland to raid, and eventually to colonise. The largest Norse settlement so far discovered is at Jarlshof in Shetland and another has been excavated at Udal in North Uist. The Norse invaders did not always destroy what they found, however, at Brough of Birsay the long-houses of the incomers respected the sacred site of a Pictish monastery. Indeed, many of the settlers converted to Christianity and it is reported that Olav Trygvasson of Norway had Earl Sigurd baptised in 955 after he himself had been converted.

Answer 5

the surname kirk comes from your father you dummy

Answer 6

Kirk is Scots Gaelic for Church.

Answer 7

Kirk is an abbreviation of kirkup from olden times meaning to ****-up.

Answer 8

Your name, kirk, is in position number 1790 in our 2006 list.
Last year it was in position number 1959
Your name have moved up 169 places since last year.

german for church

Answer 9

Clearly one of your ancestors was shagged by the captain of the Enterprise, probably in that episode when he and Spock found themselves back in the 1920's. He was like that, old James Tiberius, just one giant gland, couldn't help himself!

Answer 10

Kirk... Teutonic origins [kirche]
Gaelic [Scots] primitive place of worship.