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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : nickname from kurpiel ‘rude’, ‘uncouth’, ‘ill-mannered’.
  • Polish : metonymic occupational name for a clog maker, from Polish dialect kurpiel ‘clog’, ‘bast shoe’.

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