Kiel

in Indiana

There are 177 people with the last name "Kiel" in Indiana.

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Ranking in Indiana

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Kiel 3,917
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  1. is 3,913th most common Hooks
  2. is 3,914th most common Ibarra
  3. is 3,915th most common Jenks
  4. is 3,916th most common Kester
  5. is 3,917th most common Kiel
  6. is 3,918th most common Lamaster
  7. is 3,919th most common Larrison
  8. is 3,920th most common Laux
  9. is 3,921st most common Mangus

Similar Names and Nicknames

Keel, Keeley, Kiely, Keele, Keely, Kielty, Kielbasa, Kieler, Kill, Kielar

Most Common First Names for Kiel

Joseph, Carl, Matthew, Michael, William, David, Paul, Robert, Ronald, Ruth



Meaning & History

German (common in the north of Germany and around Hamburg): in some cases probably a habitational name from the city of Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, but more likely a topographic name for someone living by a long narrow bay or area of sheltered water, from Middle Low German kil ‘wedge’, the word from which the city derives its name. Alternatively, it may be from the same word applied as a nickname to denote a crude person.

North German: possibly an occupational name for a ship's captain, short for Low German Kilmester (Middle Low German kil ‘keel’, ‘boat’ + mester ‘master’, ‘skipper’). Kilmester is attested as a surname near Rostock in the 13th century.

German: from a pet form of the personal name Kilian.

Dutch: from Middle Dutch kidel, kedel ‘smock’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who make such garments or perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore one.

Dutch: habitational name from a place so named in Antwerp or from the German city (see 1).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kil.

Polish (Kieł): from kieł ‘tooth’, ‘fang’, hence a nickname for someone with bad or protruding teeth.


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