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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : see Keeley.
  • English : nickname from Middle English keling ‘young codfish’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Kühling, a patronymic from Colo, probably a short form of an old personal name meaning ‘helmet’.

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