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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch konckel, kunkel ‘distaff’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of distaffs or for a flax spinner.
  • German : variant of Kunkel.
  • German : habitational name from Kankel in Mecklenburg or near Posen (now Poznan).

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