What is "kydones"

Kydones is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Demetrios Kydones (1324–1398 ), Byzantine theologian, translator, writer and influential statesman
• Prochoros Kydones (c. 1330 – c. 1369), Latinized as Prochorus Cydones or Prochorus Cydonius was an Eastern Orthodox monk, theologian, and linguist