Kellogg (name)

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Kellogg is an English family name. It is first recorded in the 13th century in the form of Kyllehog and is originally a professional name for a butcher , literally meaning "pig butcher " (Middle English killen , "to kill" and hog , "pig").

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ PH Reaney and RM Wilson: A Dictionary of English Last Names . 3rd, revised edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1997. p. 262, sv Kellog, Kellogg .