When Catherine Margaretha Kilian was born on 5 February 1833, in Leutershausen, Weinheim, Baden, her father, Georg Christoph Conrad Kilian, was 56 and her mother, Rosina Sigrist, was 44.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Arnd, Fritz, Gunter, Heinz, Helmut, Klaus, Lutz, Otto, Ulrich.
German, Dutch, Polish, and Sorbian; Slovak (also Kilián); Czech (Kilián): from German, Dutch, Polish, Upper Sorbian, Slovak, and Czech adaptations of the Irish personal name Cillín (see Killeen ). Saint Kilian was a 7th-century Irish missionary to Franconia and Thuringia, martyred c. 698 at Würzburg (he is the patron saint of this German city), hence the popularity of this personal name in medieval central Europe.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish and Sorbian Kilijan: from the Polish and Lower Sorbian personal name Kilijan, of Irish origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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