Kitchell Family History
Kitchell Name Meaning
English (Sussex and Middlesex): nickname from Middle English kechel kichel ‘small cake of a kind given as alms in the name of God’. Godfathers and godmothers would commonly give such cakes to their godchildren when they asked for a blessing. Compare Chaucer's ‘a Goddes kechel’ (variant reading kichel).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022