Kolb

in Ohio

There are 420 people with the last name "Kolb" in Ohio.

Ranking in Ohio

Name	Rank
Kolb	2,821

is 2,817th most common Marion
is 2,818th most common Motter
is 2,819th most common Cundiff
is 2,820th most common Gipson
is 2,821st most common Kolb
is 2,822nd most common Lavelle
is 2,823rd most common Leon
is 2,824th most common Mcmurray
is 2,825th most common Nugent

Meaning & History

Kolb

German: from Middle High German kolbe in various meanings. The main sense is ‘mace’ or ‘cudgel’, which was both a weapon and part of an official's insignia, in some cases the insignia of a jester. It may also be a house name: there is also record of a house named ‘zum Kolben’ in Strasbourg. In Silesia the term denoted a shock of hair or a shorn head. Any of these senses could have given rise to the surname.

FOREBEARS Dielman Kolb (1691–1756), a Mennonite preacher who arrived in America in 1717 and assisted Swiss and German emigration to America, was born in the Palatinate, Germany, and migrated to PA, following two of his brothers who were also Mennonite preachers. Some of the family settled in Germantown, PA.