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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of helmets or perhaps a nickname for someone who wore a helmet. In form the name is a cross between Kesselhut (the standard German form, from Middle High German hut ‘helmet’) and Ketelhot (from Low German ketel ‘pot’ + hot ‘hat’, ‘helmet’).

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