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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian (Köteles) : occupational name for a rope maker, from kötél ‘rope’.
  • Hungarian (Köteles) : possibly a nickname for someone with some particular moral or legal obligation, from köteles ‘obliged’ (a derivative of kötél ‘rope’).

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