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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English : habitational name from any of various minor places, such as Caldbeck in Cumbria, named with the Old Norse elements kaldr ‘cold’ + bekkr ‘stream’.
  • German : variant spelling of Kolbeck.

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