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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Translation of German Kohl.
  • English : from Middle English caboche, cabage ‘cabbage’, hence a nickname or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a cabbage grower. The Middle English word also denoted a kind of freshwater fish, and in some cases the surname may have arisen from this sense.

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