Koehl Explained


Koehl
Pronunciation:	pronounced as /de/ in French pronounced as /kœl/
Meaning:	Cabbage
Region:	Alsace, Bavaria, Swabia, Switzerland
Language:	Upper German
Language origin:	Middle High German kōl, kœl, kœle Old High German: kōlo Latin: caulis ("stalk", "stem")
Origin:	Standard German Kohl
Alternative Spelling:	Köhl (Francisation: Kœhl)
Cognate:	Kohl

Koehl, also transliterated Köhl, is an Upper German surname constituting a metaphonic variant of the Standard German surname Kohl, derived from the cognate word kohl, meaning cabbage. It tends to originate as an occupational name for a cultivator or merchant of the crops.^[1]

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
Matthias Koehl (1935–2014), American U.S. Marine, and political activist
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

Koehl Lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley^[2]