Kent surname meaning

Kent is a habitational surname from the English county of Kent. People who left the county were identified by where they came from, and the label hardened into a hereditary name. English bearers also settled in Meath in the thirteenth century, and the surname was later Gaelicized as Ceannt. Kentish can be a related regional adjective form rather than a separate meaning. The county’s own deeper Celtic etymology is a place-name question behind the surname. Place is exact, and the county origin is high confidence.