Given name & surname · also German
Kill
“cool”
Kill is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a Jewish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “cool.”
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Where it comes from
Kill has more than one origin: as a German and Dutch surname, it comes from Latin Celbis; as a Jewish surname, it comes from Yiddish קיל.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Kill’s family of names
In English usage, Kill as a surname has a related form in KILLE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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