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Kolb

in the US

There are 10,317 people with the last name "Kolb" in the United States.

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Kolb 2,696
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  1. is 2,692nd most common Christianson
  2. is 2,693rd most common Ashton
  3. is 2,694th most common Mize
  4. is 2,695th most common Levesque
  5. is 2,696th most common Kolb
  6. is 2,697th most common Oreilly
  7. is 2,698th most common Ricci
  8. is 2,699th most common Reinhardt
  9. is 2,700th most common Toledo

Similar Names and Nicknames

Kilby, Kolbe, Kalb, Kolberg, Kolbeck, Kolber, Kolbo, Kolba, Kolbert, Kolby

Most Common First Names for Kolb

John, Robert, Michael, James, William, David, Richard, Mary, Charles, Thomas

Meaning & History

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.

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