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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Slovenian : nickname or topographic name from kokalj ‘corn cockle’ (also kokolj, old spellings kokal and kokol) (the plant Agrostemma githago), a weed of cereal crops. Compare Konkol.

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