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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Jewish (from Poland) : nickname for a rotund person, from Polish kula ‘ball’, Czech dialect kula (standard Czech koule).
  • Czech : from a short form of the personal name Mikuláš, Czech form of Nicholas.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name from Kulya, now in Belarus.

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