Kosel

Family name origins & meanings

• German (also Kösel) : habitational name from places named Kosel, in eastern Germany and Schleswig-Holstein.
• German : variant of Kusel 1, a nickname meaning ‘spinning top’.
• Eastern German (of Slavic origin) : from a Slavic word meaning ‘he-goat’, e.g. Polish dialect kozieł. Compare Koziol