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Name Kiel
Type Surname (from occupation, from location & from nickname)
Usage Dutch
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Meaning & History
From Middle Dutch kidel, kedel "smock", hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who make such garments or perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore one. Also a Dutch habitational name from a place so named in Antwerp or from the German city Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein.