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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : habitational name from any of various minor places named with Gaelic caolas ‘narrows’, ‘strait’. Compare Kyle.
  • Czech (Kyleš) : from a personal name derived from Irish Kilian (see Kilian, Killeen).

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