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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoods or hooded robes and cloaks, from Low German Kogel, Kagel (from Latin cuculla ‘sphere’).
  • German : variant of Kögel (see Kogel).

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