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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : possibly from a short form of Kilian.
  • German : habitational name from the village of Kill in the Eifel.
  • Jewish : of uncertain origin; perhaps a nickname from Yiddish kil ‘cool’.

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