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The English name comes from Old English cyning (tribal leader), which may derive from Proto-Germanic kuningaz. The Irish surname King is associated with County Galway and was often given to Irish-American immigrants as an anglicized form of the surname Conroy, among others.The Scottish surname King is a sept of the Clan Gregor / MacGregor.he Irish surname King is associated with County Galway and was often given to Irish-American immigrants as an anglicized form of the surname Conroy, among others.
This King gave his name to the county (now part of Tayside) called Angus, and many Scots have recieved it as a given name in his honour. It may also be of Scottish locational origin from the county thus called. The surname is first recorded in the early half of the 13th Century, (see below).