King (surname)
King is an English and Scottish surname. It is also an Anglicized form of the German surname Küng (also König, Koenig and other forms), which in many German dialects is pronunced like king. This originally German form is widespread among American Mennonites and Amish. Origins and variants. The English name may be related to the Old English word for a tribal leader, "cyning", which derives from the Proto-Germanic "kuningaz". The Scottish surname "King" is a sept of the Clan Gregor / MacGregor.