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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : as a northern name, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of hooded cloaks or cowels, Middle Low German kogel ‘hood’ (Late Latin cuculla); as a southern German and Austrian name, a topographic or habitational name from the dialect word kogel ‘mountain top’. In the form Kögel, it may be a variant of Kegel.

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