Kitchens: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Many Kitchens families will find their roots under Kitchen, the form most records use. Read literally, Kitchens points to “Kitchen worker”.

• You may also find the name written Kitching.
• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.
• About 10,647 people in the United States were recorded as Kitchens in 2010, placing it 3,359 on the national list.
• Kitchens adds a patronymic ending to Kitchen, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Kitchens, so the heraldry linked to Kitchen is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Kitchens report, with a museum-style coat of arms.