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Kelp

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Norfolk) : possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who collected and burnt kelp (seaweed) for use in soap and glass making, Middle English culp(e).

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