Kienast Family History
Kienast Name Meaning
German and Swiss German: ocupational nickname from Middle High German kienast ‘branch of a pine-tree’ (compare 3 below). German: habitational name from the placename Kynast in Silesia named with the same word as in 1 above. Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name composed of German Kiene ‘pine’ + Ast ‘branch’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022