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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Köhl) : from Middle High German kōl, köl ‘cabbage’, ‘cabbage head’ (ultimately from Latin caulis ‘stalk’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of cabbages.
  • from the Germanic personal name Kolo.

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