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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Kälber) : occupational name for someone who raised calves, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kalp ‘calf’.
  • German (Kälber) : topographic name for someone who lived by the Kalbe river in the Harz mountains.

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