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The kudla Surname

kudla Name Meaning and History

  1. Polish (Kudla), Czech, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname from Polish kudly, Czech and Ukrainian kudla ‘mop of hair’.
  2. Czech: from kudla ‘clasp knife’, ‘little knife’, a nickname for a small but powerfully built person.

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Distribution of kudla Families in the US in 1920
Number of kudla families
 8-14
 3-7
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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