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I don't know if Kinkel's parents created Kipland on their own, but if so they certainly weren't the first ones to do it. Here are some examples of other Kiplands on the WorldWide Web:

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Kipland Small, Jr., high school basketball player:
http://www.wltx.com/sports/potw/story.aspx?storyid=34341

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Kipland Strobel Iles, IT consultant:
http://www.theiles.net/index.php?option=content&task=category§ionid=3&id=18&Itemid=37

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Kipland Howard, businessman in San Diego, CA:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050111/news_1m11bell.html

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The following genealogy site also lists two teenager servants with the surname of Kipland living with a family in Indiana in 1880:
http://www.three-systems.com/gen/heustis/d0000/g0000046.html

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I suspect that Kipland is a very rare surname, perhaps a variation of Kipling.