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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Kölle) : from the Germanic personal name Kolo or from a pet form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas).
  • German (Kölle) : habitational name from the city of Cologne (German Köln) or places so named near Berlin, in Saxony, Pomerania, or the Palatinate.

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