What nationality is the last name "Knaak" derived?

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What nationality is the last name "Knaak" derived?

People often are confused with the spelling and pronounciation of my last name. Phonetically it sounds like it should be spelled Kinnock.

2007-02-20 03:05:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy

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The name is derived from a Lower German word "Knaa(c)k" which means "bone" (High German/ modern Standard German: "Knochen"). So the name was probably given to an ancestor of yours who was a butcher in northern Germany.

2007-02-21 16:02:47 · answer #1 · answered by Sterz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Knaak is German. The free 1880 USA Census records at Ancestry show that the surname came from many German-speaking areas -- Prussia, Switzerland, Baden.

2007-02-20 12:12:57 · answer #2 · answered by dlpm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋