Kolbeck Family History

German: habitational name from Kolbach or Kollbach in Bavaria. German: habitational name from Kohlbeck in Schleswig-Holstein and possibly also from Colbeck, an abandoned settlement in the district of Wernigerode in the Hartz Mountains.

Danish: from Old Norse kaldr ‘cold’ + bekkr ‘stream’; hence presumably a topographic name for someone who lived near a cold stream.

Altered form of Norwegian Kulbeck: habitational name from a farm in the province of Buskerud named Kullebekken, a compound of kull ‘coal’ and bekk ‘stream’, referring to the dark color of the water.