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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from a pet form of the personal name Mikołaj, Polish form of Nicholas.
  • Polish : from kolęda ‘Christmas carol’, also denoting a collection of donations at Advent and Christmas, from Latin Calendae ‘first days of the month’. Compare Kolander.

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