Family name origins & meanings
- Polish (Kąkol) and Hungarian (Konkoly) : nickname meaning ‘corn cockle’, a weed of cereal crops, Polish kąkol, Hungarian konkoly, the latter a loanword from Slovenian kokolj (see Kokal), hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a weed-covered plot of land, or a nickname for a poor farmer or someone who was not highly thought of.
- German : variant of Konkel 3.