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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a maker of quilts and mattresses, and also of the quilted garments worn in battle by those who could not afford armor made of metal, from an agent derivative of Middle English, cuilte, coilte ‘quilt’, ‘mattress’ (from Old French, from Latin culcita ‘mattress’).

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