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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German kandel, German Kandel ‘pitcher’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of these.
  • German : habitational name from either of two places so named: in the Rhineland-Palatinate and in the Black Forest.

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