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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads especially in Østlandet, named Kolstad, from the Old Norse personal name Kolr meaning ‘coal’, ‘black’ or Kollr meaning ‘round skull’, ‘bald head’ + staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.
  • Altered spelling of German Kohlstädt, a habitational name from a place so named near Paderborn in Westphalia.

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