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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German kit(t)el ‘smock’, ‘shirt-like garment’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such garments or a nickname for someone who habitually wore one.
  • English : variant of Kettle.

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