Kehl Family History
- Kehl Name Meaning
- habitational name from various places so named, notably the town across the Rhine from Strasbourg. from Middle High German kel(e) ‘throat’, hence a nickname possibly for someone with a goiter or perhaps with a distinctively throaty voice. variant of Köhl (see Kohl). from a northern German field name of unknown etymology.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 95,180 Historical Documents with Kehl on Ancestry
- 43,270 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,797 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,416 Military Records
- 2,968 Immigration Records
- 29,729 Member Trees
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Number of Kehl families
 9 - 15  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kehl census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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