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The kehl Surname

kehl Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from various places so named, notably the town across the Rhine from Strasbourg.
  2. from Middle High German kel(e) ‘throat’, hence a nickname possibly for someone with a goiter or perhaps with a distinctively throaty voice.
  3. variant of Köhl (see Kohl).
  4. from a northern German field name of unknown etymology.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kehl Families in the US in 1920
Number of kehl families
 28-54
 10-27		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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