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Is Kinch a German name or Irish ??
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This site suggests it is Irish.
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Kinch
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Ancestry suggests similar but suggests Kintsch is a German variant.
http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=kinch
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The online German telephone book lists only 3 Kinch all over Germany.
Also, being a German, the name does not sound familiar at all.
So I would not call it a typical German surname.
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