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The cole Surname

cole Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a Middle English pet form of Nicholas.
  2. English: from a Middle English personal name derived from the Old English byname Cola (from col ‘(char)coal’, presumably denoting someone of swarthy appearance), or the Old Norse cognate Koli.
  3. Scottish and Irish: when not of English origin, this is a reduced and altered form of McCool.
  4. In some cases, particularly in New England, Cole is a translation of the French surname Charbonneau.
  5. Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kohl.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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cole Family Facts

Distribution of cole Families in the US in 1920
Number of cole families
 1329-2655
 444-1328		 1-443
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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