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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from kisiel ‘fruit jelly’, perhaps applied as a nickname for someone with a passion for this type of confection or some perceived likeness to it.
  • Polish : topographic name, a variant of German Kiesel ‘gravel’.

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