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[Facts] What does my last name mean?!
by Stephani Kohl (guest)
2/15/2005, 8:21 AM
i need to know what my last name is before thursday! its Kohl, and i think it Danish, cause my great-grandfather is from denmark, but i need to know!pleeze help!
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- Andy ;—) (guest)   +2
2/15/2005, 8:30 AM
German (also Köhl): from Middle High German kôl, 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.

(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
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- Kelsey Funk (guest)   +1
2/16/2005, 4:41 PM
My name is Kelsey Funk and i want to know what Funk my last name mean and where it comes from. Is it German?
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- Andy ;—) (guest)
2/16/2005, 10:54 PM
German: nickname for a blacksmith, or for a small and lively or irritable individual, from Middle High German vunke ‘spark’.

(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
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