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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian and Polish (Kułaga) : from the dialect word kułága denoting a kind of gruel. In some places this is a synonym of Kulesza. As a surname, it may be a nickname for a fat man or for an impoverished person who could eat only gruel.

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