Kancel is used as a family name or surname in France. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Kancel
No. of characters: 6
Origin: France
Meaning: Name fairly widespread in the overseas departments. Difficult to comment without knowing the exact geographic origin and the primitive form of the name. Seems to be closer to Cancel names, Chancel, which evoke a fenced place.

How popular is Kancel?

Kancel is ranked 294604 on our list.

Kancel is not so popular last name but still a prevalent surname concentrated mainly in France which may be its originating country too. Around 1021 people have been found who wears Kancel as their family name. Few people around the world have Kancel as their surname. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
746,494 India7
201,317 England2
81,201 Switzerland1
810,193 Indonesia1
37,779 Serbia1
174,544 Czech Republic1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
358,990 United States41
Countries with hundreds of Kancel:
9,345 France967

Comments

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Kimberly Villa
We are probably in the presence of a form of the old French name chancel, cancel formerly named the localities or mansions characterized by walls of speakers from the Latin "cancellus": "closing" a form of the Alsatian "kandel": "small gutter", "gutter" feature of the house seems to be excluded.

Kancel Namesakes

  • Tomas Kančelskis, Soccer player

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