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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : shortened form of Kelberer, occupational name for someone who reared calves, from Middle High German kalb, kalp (plural kelber) + the agent suffix -er.
  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Kelbra on the Unstrut river.

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