Kolb Family History
- Kolb Name Meaning
- 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 739,329 Historical Documents with Kolb on Ancestry
- 273,831 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 50,061 Census and Voter Lists
- 24,985 Military Records
- 10,209 Immigration Records
- 380,243 Member Trees
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Number of Kolb families
 115 - 228  39 - 114 |
 1 - 38  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kolb families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kolb families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 280
- Confederate
- 86
- Union
- 194
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