Kish Family History
Kish Name Meaning
Americanized form of Hungarian Kiss meaning ‘small’ and of its Slavicized (mainly Serbian and Croatian) form Kiš (see Kis ). Compare Kisch . Rusyn: nickname of Hungarian origin meaning ‘small’ (see 1 above). Ukrainian: metonymic occupational name for a basketmaker from kish ‘basket’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kisch .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022