Koehl, also transliterated Köhl, is a German surname.
According to one etymology, in the southern Germanosphere, it constitutes an Upper German umlaut variant of the Standard German epithetic surname Kuehl. Thus derived from a byname of the word kuehl, meaning "cool"; "cold".https://www.igenea.com/en/surnames/k/kuhle-1https://www.wisdomlib.org/names/kuehl
According to another etymology, in the northern Germanosphere, it constitutes a Lower German umlaut variant of the Standard German surname Kohl. Thus derived from the word kohl, meaning cabbage, presumably an agricultural occupational name.Duden Familiennamen, Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-411-70852-2, S. 389
People Albert Koehl (born 1959), Canadian lawyer and writer Albert Köhl (1879–1954), German-Swedish chef de cuisine Dan Koehl (born 1959), French-Swedish elephant trainer Ditmar Koel (1500–1563), German politician Émile Koehl (1921–2013), French politician Georg Köhl (1910–1944), German football player Hermann Köhl (1888–1938), German aviator Laurent Koehl (born 1971), French tenor M. A. R. Koehl (born 1948), American marine biologist and Professor at University of California, Berkeley Matt Koehl (1935–2014), leader of the American Nazi Party Keith Koehl, American Catholic prelate Robert B. Koehl, American archaeologist Robert Lewis Koehl (1922–2015), U.S. Army Intelligence surveyor, and Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wade Koehl (born 1984), American football player
Other Koehl Lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
See also
Kuehl Kohl
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