Given name & surname
Ketel
Ketel is a given name from Old Norse. It is used in German.
Meaning & origin
Ketel’s family of names
In Danish usage, Ketel has a conventional equivalent in the German form Kjetil. In Greek usage, Ketel as a surname is a transliteration of Κέτελ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ketel
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