Kendrick (name)

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Kendrick is a surname, sometimes used as a masculine given name, which may originate from:{{Cite web|url=http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Kendrick|title = Surname Database: Kendrick Last Name Origin}}

  • The Welsh name Cynwrig meaning "greatest champion", or
  • The Anglo-Saxon name Cyneric meaning [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cyne- cyne] (royal, of a king) + [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/r%C4%ABks rīks] (king, ruler).
  • The Highland Scots surname Machendrie, frequently anglicized into Kendrick and MacKendrick

The first recorded spelling is that of John Kendrich, which was dated 1279, in the Hundred Rolls of Cambridgeshire, during the reign of King Edward I of England.{{cite web |url=https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Kenrick |title=Last name: Kenrick |website=SurnameDB |publisher= Name Origin Research 1980 - 2024 |access-date=February 17, 2024}}

Notable people with the name include:

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