Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German kunkel ‘spindle’, ‘distaff’ (from Late Latin conicula, conucula diminutive of conus ‘cone’, ‘peg’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spindles or a spinner or alternatively a nickname for a tall thin person.
- German : from a medieval German personal name, a pet form of Kuno (see Kuhn).
- German : perhaps a topographic name.
- German : habitational name from a manor near Eisenack (Thuringia) or Erkelenz (Westphalia).