Kenkel Family History
- Kenkel Name Meaning
- South German: possibly a variant of Gengel, deriving either from Old High German gang ‘go’, an element in many personal names, or from Middle High German gengeler ‘street seller’, ‘seller of haberdashery’; alternatively, it may be a topographic name from Middle High German kengel ‘gutter’ or a shortened form of Swabian Kenkelin, a variant of Künkelin, a pet form of the personal name Konrad or Kuno, or alternatively a diminutive of Kunkel, a nickname for a tall, lanky man.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,556 Historical Documents with Kenkel on Ancestry
- 5,551 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,878 Census and Voter Lists
- 505 Military Records
- 454 Immigration Records
- 6,168 Member Trees
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Number of Kenkel families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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