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kolden Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Middle Low German kolt, kolde ‘cold’, a nickname for an unfriendly person; alternatively, it may be a habitational name, a shortened form of Koldenhof ‘cold farm’ in Mecklenburg (standardized form: Kaltenhof, a frequent place name in northern Germany, East Prussia, Bavaria, and Württemberg).
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from a farm called Kolden, from Old Norse kollr ‘rounded mountain top’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kolden Families in the US in 1920
Number of kolden families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Hans Kolden-Hanson swilanders 6
Hans Koloen Lavone 0
Ruth E. Kolden B:1904 & Ole E Kolden B:1887 menorse2_1 0
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