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cullen Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coileáin ‘descendant of Coileán’, a byname meaning ‘puppy’ or ‘young dog’.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuilinn ‘descendant of Cuileann’, a byname meaning ‘holly’.
  3. Scottish: habitational name from Cullen in Banff, so named from Gaelic cùilen, a diminutive of còil, cùil ‘nook’, ‘recess’.
  4. English: habitational name from the Rhineland city of Cologne (Old French form of Middle High German Köln, named with Latin colonia ‘colony’).
  5. English: variant of Cooling.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cullen Families in the US in 1920
Number of cullen families
 438-874
 147-437		 1-146
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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