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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Kudła), Czech, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname from Polish kudły, Czech and Ukrainian kudla ‘mop of hair’.
  • Czech : from kudla ‘clasp knife’, ‘little knife’, a nickname for a small but powerfully built person.

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