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The Keykendall name is Dutch. Our Dutch Heritage A Research Synopsis of the Kuykendall Family: Kuykendall, Kirkendall, Cuykendall, Coykendall, etc Compiled by Gene Kuykendall, 1997
In Minisink, Luur Jacobsen adopted a toponym - church records of 1706 list "Luur Jacobsen van Kuykendaal". Early Dutch Genealogist explained the name to mean "vankijk-in-t'dal" , translated "from view of the valley" i.e.; From Wageningen over looking the Rhine valley. Adopting to toponym (place of origin) in America to supplement or replace their Dutch patronym (son of) was not uncommon. The surname is not found previously in Europe, but strickly of American origin.