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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Kölle) : from a short form of the old personal name Colo, or in Austria of Koloman, which is of the same origin (see Kolling 1).
  • German : nickname from Middle Low German kolle ‘head’.

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