Kitchener Family History
Kitchener Name Meaning
English (southeastern):: occupational name from Middle English kychener ‘someone employed in (or in charge of) a kitchen especially the kitchen of a monastery’. See Kitchen . habitational name from Kitchenour in Beckley (Sussex). The placename derives from an Old English personal name Cycci (genitive Cyccan) + Old English ōra ‘bank edge hill’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022