Family name origins & meanings
- Altered spelling of German Kahlich, an occupational name for a lime burner (see Kalk, Kalkbrenner).
- German : topographic name for someone living in a dwelling on piles in a marshy region, from Sorbian kolik, diminutive of kol ‘pile’, ‘stake’.
- Czech : from kalich ‘chalice’, possibly a nickname for a protestant.
- Perhaps an altered spelling of Czech or Slovak Kaleš, Kališ (see Kales, Kalis).