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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a maker of wooden pegs and wedges or a woodchopper, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kīl ‘wedge’, ‘wooden peg’.
  • German : possibly a derivative of Geil (see Keil 2).

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