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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Künkler) : occupational name for a spinner or spinster, i.e. someone who spins wool or flax, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kunkel ‘spindle’, ‘distaff’. Kunkler also denoted a gossipmonger, and in some cases the surname may have arisen from this sense.

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