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kunkel Name Meaning and History

  1. from Middle High German kunkel ‘spindle’, ‘distaff’ (from Late Latin conicula, conucula diminutive of conus ‘cone’, ‘peg’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spindles or a spinner or alternatively a nickname for a tall thin person.
  2. from a medieval German personal name, a pet form of Kuno (see Kuhn).
  3. possibly from Low German kunkel ‘dugout’, ‘shelter’, or ‘deep water’, of uncertain application: perhaps a topographic name.
  4. (Künkel): habitational name from a manor near Eisenack (Thuringia) or Erkelenz (Westphalia).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kunkel Families in the US in 1920
Number of kunkel families
 103-203
 35-102		 1-34
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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KUNKEL Frederick W 1923-1987 t42Moore 0
KUNKEL Cecelia B 1918-1981 t42Moore 0
KUNKEL Lillian M 1919-1982 t42Moore 0
KUNKEL Albert J Sr 1895-1972 t42Moore 0
KUNKEL Nettie Jane 1896-1986 t42Moore 0
Albert Kunkel, Simcoe, Canada Cathy Kunkel 4
Kunkle, Johnstown,PA/ Augusta Steinbring; Kunkel Elkhart, IN Boyer, Thomas E 6
Mary Kunkel, Pa. mike hand 9
Kunkel's of Posen Germany Steven Kunkel 3
John Julius Kunkel nedlaw 1
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