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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from Middle High German kelch ‘double chin’, ‘goiter’.
  • German : from another meaning of Middle High German kelch ‘glass’, ‘chalice’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a chalice maker or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a chalice.

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