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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (also Kukła) and Czech : from kukla ‘cowl’, ‘hood’, ‘mask’, probably a nickname bestowed on an habitual wearer of a hood or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a hood or cowl maker.

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