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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a reduced form of the personal name Nicholas.
  • Scottish or Irish : reduced form of McColl.
  • Catalan : topographic name from coll ‘mountain pass’, from Latin collis ‘hill’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Koll or Kohl.

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