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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Köbler) : from Kobel ‘cottage’, hence a topographical name or status name for someone who lived in a cottage (see Kobel 3). It is also found as a Slovenian surname, with the variant Koblar.

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