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kolb Name Meaning and History

German: from Middle High German kolbe in various meanings. The main sense is ‘mace’ or ‘cudgel’, which was both a weapon and part of an official’s insignia, in some cases the insignia of a jester. It may also be a house name: there is also record of a house named ‘zum Kolben’ in Strasbourg. In Silesia the term denoted a shock of hair or a shorn head. Any of these senses could have given rise to the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kolb Families in the US in 1920
Number of kolb families
 115-228
 39-114		 1-38
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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